Story of Conflict and Love (eBook)

China's Soft-War Against the U.S.

Jack Cox Williams (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
979-8-3509-6248-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Jacobson was too young to die. There he was in Chuut Lagoon, Micronesia, slumped over some boxes in a small, dark, silt-filled room 60' below the surface on the WW11 wreck of Japan's Fujikawa Maru. He had a wire wrapped around his regulator and another one around his left ankle. He was out of air. Jacobson's 15 world-renowned scientists had issued a Final Report proving that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels do NOT cause world temperature to rise. The U.S. resumes fossil fuel production and regains its energy independence and major fossil fuel exporter. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tried hard to stop this Report but failed. Jacobson had to die. International conspiracy, thrilling politics, and forbidden romance fill 'A Story of Conflict and Love' with tension, chemistry, and adventure that will leave readers' hearts racing till the final page.

The author is an old man who from his kitchen window during WW11 watched U.S. Navy planes take off and land at Squantum, Massachusetts, U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia Earhart flew here, 1928-29 when its name was Dennison Airport. The author served six years in the Naval Air Corps as a Pacific Ocean navigator with Viet Nam Experience and as Squadron Legal Officer in England. He met his wife, Penny, in London and they spent four years in South Africa where he did further graduate work thanks to the G.I. Bill. They had numerous close encounters with elephants, an angry rhino, and several territorially conscious chimpanzees. Returning to the United States in 1971, the author worked briefly for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Lesotho. He then spent about twenty years working for the U.S. Department of Commerce in both the 'international trade side' (e.g., United Kingdom, European Economic Community, Japan, Africa) and the 'science and technology side (e.g., federal technology transfer policy, metric conversion, small business innovation). He represented the United States in bilateral and multilateral negotiations and the U.S. Department of Commerce in War Games. They live in Maryland with their German Shepherd dog, Kaiser. They have one child and four grandchildren. The author holds national gold medals in his age group for tennis ad pickleball singles and has SCUBA certifications in Wreck Diving and Rescue Diving. Hobbies are woodworking and reading.

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American executive Paul Jacobson was dead, slumped over some boxes in a small, dark, silt-filled room 60' below the surface on the WW11 wreck of Japan's Fujikawa Maru. He had a wire wrapped around his regulator and another around his ankle. Six months before, Jacobson's 15 world-renown scientists had issued a Report proving that carbon dioxide emissions do NOT cause world temperatures to rise. The U.S. resumes fossil fuel production and regains energy independence and major fossil fuel exporter. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tried hard to stop the Report but failed. Jacobson had to die. China's President Xi directs CCP's United Front to step-up its 'soft-power' attack to weaken U.S. democracy by bribery, intimidation, disinformation, money laundering, disrupting peaceful demonstrations, anything that works. From Boston's Chinatown, the CCP builds a database of 55,000 recent Chinese migrants. The Politburo develops plan for sabotaging U.S. infrastructure--ports, transportation, water, grid system, social media. The British find a top-secret document detailing China's overall strategy against the U.S. A mysterious U.S. organization (with 'voices'), "e;the "e;Committee,"e; emerges to defeat this heightened Chinese Communist aggression. An unlikely hero, former Navy fighter pilot Levi Salinger, takes on the CCP and its United Front operation. After pleading guilty for illegally taking a CCP bribe, U.S. Congressman Marston does a public mea culpa for betraying the trust of the American people before he is jailed. Businessman Martin Altmore doles out $1.2 billion in CCP money to support the CCP soft-power agenda against the U.S. and commits suicide. Throughout the novel is a hard-love affair between CCP assassin Liu Jian and Chen Jing, the Harvard-educated daughter of President Xi and mother of little Hua. But who is she really? Is she CCP or just an innocent bystander trying to make a new life in the U.S., but haunted by who her father is? A central theme is the Chinese struggle between loyalty to a brutal and autocratic regime or a return to thousands of years of traditional Chinese values and customs. China's exiled Falon Gong triad of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance contrasts dramatically with the Communist Party's practice of deception, violence, and repression. Thanks to information from a mole in China's Politburo, a top secret American "e;Science Lab"e; is reconstituted in the sub-basement of the FBI building in Washington D.C. and attempts to hack into Beijing's massive data warehouse containing information on the Chinese migrants arriving in the U.S., the identity of CCP agents and sympathizers in the U.S., annotated descriptions of China's high priority technologies, and even the CCP's 'three coordinate plan' for sabotaging U.S. infrastructure. The novel's first chapter is President Xi's own words as to "e;how much the Chinese people and other countries acknowledge my enlightened leadership, and Lei Feng confirms my good judgement when he visits me in my dreams to help me solve China's challenges."e; In the final chapter, Xi's happy dreams are replaced by nightmares where he sees his imaginary friend slowly disappearing and being replaced by another man whose name is "e;Ziyou"e; meaning 'freedom.' There are about 50 named characters, including many Chinese such as Yang Wen, the ever-present senior CCP agent; Liu Jian, CCP assassin and would-be lover; Chen Jing, President Xi's daughter; Pi Haoyu, CCP agent and murderer; Zeng Jun, illegal migrant; Wang Feng, reluctant CCP agent and Chinatown stockbroker; and President Xi.

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THE CLIMATE CHANGE FIASCO

Climate change and environmental policy were hot topics without a clear understanding or appreciation of all the new scientific data that were emerging. A consensus was needed so that the U.S. Government could make meaningful public policy decisions and so that the private sector could make accurate investment decisions. The stakes were high. Were public and private sector expenditures going in the right direction as indicated by the new scientific data? The problem was that the data and their interpretation were inconclusive. Bad decisions would jeopardize the economy, the environment, and U.S. national security.

The House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Energy, Climate, and Grid Security chaired by Elizabeth Daley of Texas recognized the need for a new study. The U.S. Congress authorized and appropriated money for a major study to address the issue, especially all the seemingly conflicting scientific data. The project was awarded to the highly-regarded Center for Independent and Adjunct Scientific Research (CIASR), Paul Jacobson’s outfit. He agreed to keep the dozen or so federal agencies concerned about climate change informed, but would permit no interference from them.

Jacobson was keenly aware of a finding in 2018 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that showed the earth’s “greenness” was actually increasing, not decreasing. This key finding questioned the prevailing wisdom that rising earth temperatures were caused by higher carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil-based energy. Paul had not been part of that study, but he knew that it had major implications. It was largely ignored. Some said it was being suppressed. Opponents hoped that any follow-up study and report would “clarify” the NASA finding. Literally billions of dollars were at stake as were reputations and careers.

Within a few weeks of the new President, Nathan Stafford (60, married with two grown children) taking the helm, his new Chief of Staff, former businessman John Collins, telephoned Paul to meet the President in the Oval Office. The President indicated that henceforth restrictions on fossil fuel exploration and production would stop. The President knew about the upcoming climate change study approved by the Congress and was pleased that CIASR would carry it out. He would ensure that NOAA, the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would assist Jacobson if he requested it. The President made it clear that the CIASR study was to insulate itself from politics and stick to the science and the new data. The President said nothing that suggested to Paul that the study was to confirm or debunk prevailing climate change wisdom or government policy. He said he wanted Paul to be the independent “Science Guy” on the matter.

Paul asked the President about possible pushback from any affected Congressional committees such as the House Select Committee On The Climate Crisis, or the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Public Works, and even direct pushback from their subcommittees. Chief of Staff Collins responded for the President, “we’ve taken care of all that.”

As Paul was about to leave the Oval Office, the President handed him a note, “here’s someone who might be able to help you should you need it.” Paul took the note and put it in his wallet. President Stafford and Paul shook hands, the President winking slightly and Paul smiling in a similarly subtle way. The handshake was not an ordinary one; it was a college fraternity handshake. As Paul was driven back to his office he looked at the note. All it had was a telephone number with an odd area code. Paul smiled broadly and to himself said, some things never change, ‘good ole Nate.’

An Enduring Friendship

When Paul got back home, Amy greeted him and asked, “well, did you two shake hands?” “Sure did.” They both smiled. Nate Stafford’s and Paul Jacobson’s adult lives had taken different directions but the kinship they felt for each other was timeless. Paul and Nate had been fraternity brothers at Tufts University. One Saturday in June after ‘finals’ they decided to lay Tufts’ claim to abandoned George’s Island in the Boston Harbor area. They bought a Tufts flag at the bookstore and rented a small boat with an outboard motor from a Hull boat rental shop. They told the proprietor that they wanted to go fishing, but their real goal was George’s Island. This island was used as a Union prison during the Civil War. It was said to be haunted by the ‘Lady in Black’ whose Confederate soldier-husband died on the island. Paul and Nate set out after dark because they were told that the Coast Guard patrolled the area. No one lived on the island, they were told.

Their boat had no running lights and the island could not be seen in the dark. Big logs floated around the boat. Paul was the lookout in the bow. Nate had taken navigation in Tufts’ Navy ROTC program. It was cloudy, so no starlight. Visibility was about 30 feet but they made it, drawing their boat up onto the pebbled shore. They climbed the island’s hill and discovered an underground entrance with steps going down at a steep angle. The passageway at the bottom was totally dark, but they had a flashlight. They were both scared, always on the lookout for the Lady in Black’s ghost, and thanking God she didn’t appear. The two young men had had enough, returned to the beach, planted the Tufts flag with a few words of ‘colonialization,’ and returned to Hull unscathed. That crazy adventure sealed the two ‘brothers’ friendship forever.

Economic and Political Context for
Climate Change Narrative

During discussions with key Congressional personnel in both the Senate and House, Paul was asked in different ways about NASA’s earlier findings and their implications for needed changes in federal and even state climate change policy and regulations. Yes, he was somewhat aware of those findings and policy implications but never formed a definitive opinion. Nor did he express an opinion on possible policy implications of his now-approved CIASR study. This neutrality that Paul expressed on behalf of the new upcoming study was not what certain vested stakeholders in the earlier NASA findings wanted to hear. But it was politically appropriate for both sides to go along with Paul’s stated neutrality; that is, he would follow the science and only the science whatever the results turned out to be.

Some vested interests would have preferred an acknowledged CIASR bias in one direction or the other so they could prepare for what might be a huge fight. China in myriad ways had indicated strong opposition to any new study that would question the role of fossil fuel CO2 emissions as a major cause of climate change even though China itself was a major source of those emissions. A previous U.S. president had curtailed coal, natural gas, and oil exploration and production. The result? The country was no longer energy-independent or able to provide surplus energy supplies to friendly nations needing them. China won one!

Paul knew the major U.S. stakeholder interests that would be affected by the new study’s findings including private companies, industry and trade associations, environmentalists, lobbyists, and politicians. Most of them had already identified themselves during the public comment period on the 2018 NASA study. One such stakeholder organization was a group of wind and solar power interests. This group asked Paul if it could present the case for wind and power energy. Paul welcomed this presentation on behalf of the CIASR. The presentation was professional with lots of data in the form of charts and graphs. The group’s leader asked Paul what he thought, hoping that he and the CIASR study would concur that wind and solar power technology was the future of the U.S. power supply industry. Paul declined to make any such assertion, to the group’s dismay. In fact, the group publicly acknowledged, as had other stakeholder groups, Paul’s unalterable commitment to neutrality and the ‘science-only’ basis of the CIASR study. Paul announced that he would select the project’s director personally to ensure that neutrality.

What concerned Paul most were the unknown ‘dark’ stakeholders in the CIASR study. Where would the hard-to-trace lobbyist money come from? Would it be laundered to hide its real sources? What if the study’s findings conflicted with existing United Nations policy on climate change? Would that organization dig its heels in? What would be the responses of foreign governments already politically and financially committed to specific climate change policy and programs? What about U.S. state government regulations? Could Paul stand the pressure, especially if the study thoroughly debunked the current narrative that rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels were causing world temperatures to rise and which, in turn, produced more and increasingly damaging hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods?

A Good Project Leader Must Be Found for the CIASR Study

Would Paul be able to find the ‘right’ person to lead the new climate change study? Key qualities would be an earth sciences background in education and or experience, no prior significant involvement in climate change policy, and someone who would not be swayed by overt and covert influence by well-heeled vested interests. Again, the Center’s findings would be based exclusively on the science and the data. Paul hoped he could find a competent, qualified, and relatively unknown person for the Project Director’s...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• ISBN-13: 979-8-3509-6248-2 / 9798350962482