Winning the New Cold War: A Plan for Countering China

Edited by James J. Carafano, PhD, Michael Pillsbury, PhD,
Jeff M. Smith, and Andrew J. Harding

28 March 2023

The Heritage Foundation’s “Winning the New Cold War” describes the ends, ways, and means to secure America’s future while confronting the greatest external threat the U.S. has faced since the collapse of the Soviet Union—the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). To be successful, this plan requires real and sustained U.S. economic growth, greater political will, stronger external partnerships, synchronized economic and security policies, resilient supply chains and borders, adequate military deterrence, and American energy independence. It also requires buy-in from the whole of American society. In order to implement a whole-of-nation strategy, the U.S. government must educate the American public and business community, from Main Street
to Wall Street, about the scope of the threat from the CCP

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