ISBN: 978-1-937592-09-7
Page Count: 404

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That China is a rising global power asserting her presence on the global stage is undeniable. The Twilight of America’s Omnipresence is about the challenge posed by China to America’s imposing presence in global affairs as the latter veers precipitously towards an historical crescendo. A race is clearly in progress as the two powers occupy center stage and vie for primacy. The “infinite’ is the effectuation of unparalleled sway held at subatomic and genetic levels, the influence of the collective human mind, a global information grid seized with the proficiency and faculty to connect traditional forms of information with all source intelligence, and expansionism in the realms of inner and outer space. These constitute the locales for the inevitable showdown. Whether and for how long America endures as the world’s first and only Superpower as China makes an all out bid to claim global dominance will be determined by three instrumentalities – ideas, ideology and technology. The Twilight of America’s Omnipresence transports its readership in real time to the dawn of the new millennium whereupon China thrusts her stakes into Inter-American soil, preens her wings, and prepares for full flight.

…America’s ideological apparatus poses as a detriment to the emergence of other great power contenders. Thus, China would find it overwhelmingly difficult to propose a system of ideas and ideals antithetical to those championed by the US and overwhelmingly embraced by countries worldwide, as the epitome of a free, just, and progressive society…

…Concerning cyber and industrial espionage, many camps have wagered on the capability of China to seriously debilitate the US economically or militarily in the sphere of cyber war. Some of these conjectures were satisfied in the findings of a 2009 Report entitled “Capability of the people’s Republic of China to Conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation…

…While China on the one hand has locked herself into a mindset that holds a steady gaze on numbers, size, and scale, the US has migrated into efficiencies of scale that necessarily compel de-scaling to avoid mass casualties, whilst simultaneously exploiting the full advantages of stealth and inner space…