Robert Spalding > Quotes

“The risks to our nation are increasing, rather than decreasing, every minute we turn a blind eye to China’s theft of billions of dollars’ worth of intellectual property and technology; to years of piracy and copyright law violations; to the CCP’s closed economy, the artificial valuation of its own currency, its relentless political influencing operations; and so much more. As we continue to turn a blind eye, our nation moves closer to losing its independence and its freedom.”
― Robert Spalding, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

“It is in essence the perfect strategy: promise your enemy short-term profits, and enlist them to help make your country the most powerful in the world. America’s elites have been jumping at the chance to join the bandwagon for over forty years, as if it were a dream come true: get rich while making the world safe for democracy.”
― Robert Spalding, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

“Perhaps nothing threatens the CCP more than the Constitution of the United States. China’s president, Xi Jinping, has stated as much, and CCP documents that I will share make clear that fundamental American concepts—the rights of free speech and freedom of religion—are threats to the authoritarian power of the CCP, which believes that these liberties must never be allowed to take root in China and must never be the rights of Chinese citizens. The”
― Robert Spalding, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

“Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman and Ray Dalio, cochairman of the massive Bridgewater hedge fund, have consistently portrayed China as an unquestionably positive economic force.”
― Robert Spalding, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

“Glenn Tiffert, “Peering Down the Memory Hole,”
― Robert Spalding, Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept

“Just think, if it’s even possible to start a war in a computer room or a stock exchange that will send an enemy country to its doom, then is there non-battlespace anywhere? If that young lad setting out with his orders should ask today: “Where is the battlefield?” The answer would be: “Everywhere.” The United States simply doesn’t see it”
― Robert Spalding, War Without Rules: China's Playbook for Global Domination