#018: The Narrow Path

In this episode, we’ll discuss the birth of the CCP, controversy over Taiwan's desire for independence, and China's rivalry with the United States of America over becoming a powerful force on the world stage.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/decades-long-chinese-influence-panama-begins-unravel https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/01/13/fbis-chris-wray-reveals-right-before-resigning-that-china-has-penetrated-u-s-s-critical-infrastructure/ https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/ https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2002-pt17/html/CRECB-2002-pt17-Pg22779-2.htm https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinas-massive-hacking-campaign-targeting-us https://www.chinaaffairs.org/gb/detail.asp?id=99315 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/16/china.jonathanwatts https://www.csis.org/analysis/tiktok-and-national-security https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-china-relations https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/SSI-Media/Recent-Publications/Display/article/3738629/war-with-china-a-view-from-early-2024/ https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE200/PE248/RAND_PE248.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation http://www.taiwandocuments.org/assurances.htm https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38285354 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China https://www.britannica.com/biography/Confucius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Formosa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Voitinsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Borodin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Front-Chinese-history-1937-1945 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kuomintang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_Chinese_leadership https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/2479/all-info https://seemorerocks.substack.com/p/the-secret-speech-of-chinas-general?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Haotian https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/24/why-does-china-claim-almost-the-entire-south-china-sea