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From travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 500 organizations, Dr. Ward has brought the experience of a traveler, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the toughest, biggest challenges of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do? Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC based consultancy focused on the rise of India and China, and US-China global competition. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. A path-breaking work on Chinese global strategy, China\u2019s Vision of Victory brings the reader to a new understanding of China\u2019s grand-scale planning and ambitions. From seabed to space, from Africa to the Antarctic, from subsurface warfare to the rise of China\u2019s global corporations, this book illuminates the greatest challenge of our lifetimes \u2013 the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s ambition to end the American-led world and to bring about a century defined by Chinese power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DR. JONATHAN D. T. WARD has been studying the rise of China for more than a decade. 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