The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won

Chapter 5. The “New Imperialist” Wars and Weapons of Mass Construction

	People say China is a sleeping giant, but it’s wide awake. It’s the elephant creeping up behind us. Only, it’s so big we can scarcely see it moving.
	--Zainab Bangura, Sierra Leone Political Activist

In 1916, Vladimir Lenin, a forefather of Chinese Communism, described imperialism as the “highest form of capitalism.”^[1] In its modern form, the imperialist nation uses its superior financial resources and managerial expertise to gain economic control over the minerals, raw materials, agricultural products, and other natural resources of the colonized country. Such economic control is often achieved by lavishly bribing the corrupt rulers and bureaucrats of the developing nation ...