How to defeat China in a global clash without rules?

Robert Spalding is a retired United States Air Force brigadier general. The proposals of his latest book, War Without Rules: China’s Playbook for Global Domination, and the global geopolitical situation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine were discussed in Karpacz.

What are the main proposals and hypotheses posed by Spalding? He focuses on the hazardous strategic trend adopted by the West nearly two decades ago. – “Western democracies permitted the transfer of resources to China. Beijing capitalised on Western democratic mechanisms and the interconnection of Chinese and Western systems. The peril facing the West doesn’t arise from democracy being an inadequate system but rather from this interplay. The Internet, for instance, was originally expected to expand the boundaries of citizen freedoms and democracy. However, China has turned it into a tool against Western interests”, argued the retired general in Karpacz.