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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Biden’s Failures Undermine US Deterrence of China: Gordon Chang

Friday, September 16, 2022

Categories: ASCF News National Preparedness

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/bidens-failures-undermine-us-deterrence-of-china-gordon-chang_4735505.html

China affairs columnist Gordon Chang. (The Epoch Times)

The American deterrence of the Chinese regime has been breaking down following President Joe Biden’s humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan and calamitous failure to stop Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine, according to Gordon Chang, China analyst and author.

These two failures confirm in Chinese minds that the Biden administration is incompetent, according to Chang.

“Beijing’s perception makes this one of the most dangerous moments in history,” Chang said in an email to The Epoch Times.

Meanwhile, in Chang’s opinion, Biden still insists on “engagement” with China, which shows his “fundamental failure to understand Xi Jinping and Chinese communism.”

“He [Biden] like other engagers, assumes that a strong Communist Party is in the interest of the United States. By now, it is apparent that Xi Jinping’s China is dangerous and engagement has failed, but Biden apparently has not noticed,” Chang said.

At the same time, Xi is actively preparing militarily for a move against the island of Taiwan, which the regime deems part of its territory, Chang said.

Escalating Aggression
“Beijing is in the midst of the fastest military buildup since the Second World War and …the Communist Party is mobilizing civilian society for battle,” he said.

Chang pointed to China’s drone incursion into Taiwan’s airspace over the Shi Islet on Sept. 1, ignoring several flares and warning shots, saying that it is particularly ominous and signals Xi’s preparation to make an aggressive move.

“Xi may not intend to start a war, but he is doing things that can lead to conflict,” he said.

Reinforcing Power
Domestically, Chang said, Xi has been in full swing to tighten social control and prolong his power.

“Xi Jinping has reversed decades of the loosening of social controls, and his China is fast moving back toward totalitarianism,” the expert said.

“He [Xi] believes the Communist Party must have absolute control of society and that he must have absolute control of the Party.”

Chang believes Xi will further push the regime towards totalitarianism as long as he is the head of the Chinese Communist Party.

Given the fact that China has fallen into a devastating state with a failing economy, businesses in prolonged debt, and worsening food shortages, among other issues, Chang expects that a change in who will rule the Party will occur.

“Throughout Chinese history the most unlikely of leaders at the most unlikely of times have risen up and taken control of the country. It could happen any time now, especially because China is falling apart,” he said.

“You would expect that someone among 1.41 billion people thinks he or she can do better,” Chang said.

The Epoch Times reached out to the White House for comment but had not received a reply before publication.

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