Eric C Anderson

Contrary to lurid forecasts in the West that China is on track to wrest global hegemony from the United States by 2025, China is in fact positioning itself to resume its historic role as the "Middle Kingdom"—a senior mentor with benign aspirations for guiding Asia into the mid-21st century. In China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond, Eric C. Anderson challenges the widespread perception of China as a rising giant whose authoritarian program to supplant the United States as global hegemony poses a grave international threat. He weighs in against doomsday prophets such as Martin Jacques, who predicts that China's economy and diplomatic influence will equal those of the United States by 2025 and will eclipse them by a factor of two by 2050. Anderson, a player in Washington's China policy debates who enjoys deep access to Chinese intelligence sources, counters with a careful argument that Beijing's overriding aim is in fact to foster a stable global environment conducive to its economic development and regional hegemony based on legitimate political authority rather than coercion. Anderson points to three principal factors that will drive Chinese behavior over the next 10 years: the Chinese Communist Party's desire to be recognized as a responsible member of the international community; China's effort to equip, train, and maintain a modern military; and Beijing's campaign to "sell" her governance model—from economic development to serving a domestic constituency—as a direct competitor to Washington's version of liberal democracy. Asserting that Beijing is poised to serve as Washington's "peer competitor," Anderson offers insights as to what can be expected from China in the future, including facilitating U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts and participating in international peacekeeping operations.

In this book, an expert in the field explains why the United States is the world's largest debtor nation and how America's relationship to creditor states is of growing economic, diplomatic, and even national security concern. Foreign countries are not merely investing in U.S. corporations but are purchasing them outright: Abu Dhabi bought Citigroup securities, Kuwait purchased a large block Merrill Lynch stock, and China bought Morgan Stanley's convertible securities-and this happened before the September 2008 meltdown of Wall Street. The means by which wealthy foreign states make these purchases are sovereign wealth funds, their surplus capital that they are seeking to invest in order to generate the greatest return. Currently, the largest sovereign wealth funds are held by the United Arab Emirates (of which Abu Dhabi is part), Norway, Singapore, Kuwait, and the People's Republic of China; Qatar and Libya are also in the top ten. The United States has no such fund (although the state of Alaska does). This book takes a close look at China's and Norway's sovereign wealth funds to explain how they work. The author also uses domestic examples (Harvard's endowment, the California's state employees' retirement fund) to propose how the United States could create a sovereign wealth fund, speculating that such a fund could solve the looming Social Security funds shortfall. Most important, the book elucidates the national security aspects of not having an American sovereign wealth fund when so many other nations-both friend and foe-have them.

ON A CLEAR, COLD NIGHT HIGH ABOVE EAST ASIA, A CHINA AIR PASSENGER JET DISAPPEARS FROM RADAR WITH ALL ABOARD. IT'S AN ANOMALY, A FLUKE, AN UNSOLVABLE PUZZLE-AND THEN A COUPLE OF HOURS LATER, IT HAPPENS AGAIN.It's 2023. Former Air Force maintenance officer Jason Montgomery and his erstwhile wrench-twister, Rob "Ski" Kalawski, have just landed the gig of their lives. China Air's aging fleet of Boeing 777s now desperately needs navigation hardware and software upgrades. It's a multimillion-dollar contract, and they're just the guys to do it. Too easy, right? Wrong. The Japanese firm supplying the gear knows the Chinese will reverse-engineer and steal it, so they've planted a deadly navigation bug to trigger at the first sign of theft. Jason's just the middleman, but he finds himself trapped between yakuza gangsters, a tattooed dragon-lady sales exec, and murderous Russian mobsters looking to make a profit on the missing airplanes and passengers. If these crazies don't start behaving like moral adults, people are going to die by the hundreds . . . and they do. FINAL FLIGHT, the latest prescient tale from the man who brought us the NEW CALIPHATE trilogy and BYTE, might make you think twice before boarding the next plane.

TAKE A THRILL RIDE INTO THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW THROUGH A EUROPE FRACTURED BY SEISMIC CHANGE. An American journalist in Moscow uncovers a startling twist in American/Russian relations. A health care administrator struggles to keep medical services afloat amid a crumbling NHS in post-Brexit England. A Ukrainian soldier struggles to reconcile his pre- and post-war identities.This collection of short stories and beautifully rendered maps takes readers where academics and think tank philosophers dare not tread. Written by journalists and experts in regions with geopolitical unrest who have witnessed periods of great upheaval and threats both foreign and domestic, these fictionalized accounts depict the all-too-real failings of ideology and idealism in a Eurozone dystopia that has already arrived.Edited by the late Eric C. Anderson, former US Intelligence officer and author of several thrillers including the more recent "New Caliphate" trilogy--Osiris, Anubis, and Horus and the cyber thriller Byte and co-edited by Adam Dunn, author of the "More" series--Rivers of Gold, The Big Dogs, and Saint Underground--the collection features works by Conrad Zielan, Constantine Bouchagiar, Preston Smith, Peter Galuszka, David J. Doesser, Daria Sapenko, Graham Thomas, Fergal Parkinson, Nick Eaden, and Peter Heather.

RECOVERING FROM THE LAST ROUND OF TERROR--AN EXHAUSTED U. S. PRESIDENT DEALS WITH THE SPECTER OF NUCLEAR HORROR.HORUS ends the thrilling "New Caliphate" trilogy, which began with OSIRIS and ANUBIS, where megalomaniacs battled zealots and America was caught in the crossfire.U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant More and U.S. Army Special Forces Major Faheem hoped to never see one other again. But, warlords and fanatics on the march in the Middle East have no regard for others.With ISIS on its heels and the Caliph on the run, Turkish strongman Recep Erdogan revives the Ottoman Empire. The Kurds refuse to get out of his way. Poison gas in play, the jihadi have set Europe aflame, and cyber-criminal ODIN has found his way to a keyboard. More and Faheem discover that North Korean has sold cruise missiles to terrorists. Can they stop these madmen before mushroom clouds light up the world?

THE SLAUGHTER OF THOUSANDS OF US CITIZENS IN BAGHDAD WASN'T ENOUGH--SO NOW THE CALIPHATE HAS A NEW PLANANUBIS, the second installment of Eric C. Anderson's thrilling "New Caliphate" trilogy, picks up where OSIRIS left off, on a roller-coaster of soldiers, spies, statesmen and sellouts, all thrown together either to save the world--or see it destroyed.Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant More and US Army Special Forces Major Faheem are once more thrust to the front as the world braces for a hurricane of terror.With an outrageously enigmatic US president dead, his most hated political opponent about to be inaugurated, and ISIS attacking on multiple global fronts, will America and her allies give in to the jihadi and withdraw from the Middle East? The only way for More and Faheem to prevent the crisis from becoming a catastrophe is to turn to More's nemesis ODIN--the ultimate cyber-warrior.With rivers of blood ready to run through the capitals of Europe, Africa, and Washington, D.C., the clock is ticking...

THE CYBERWORLD IS ABOUT TO UNLEASH HELL UPON THE REAL WORLD - AND ONLY ONE HACKER CAN STOP IT.Her friends call her "Roller" because of her wheelchair, but the witty, wise-cracking, pistol-packing agent is better known at the CIA as "the Veterinarian." She's the woman dispatched to cage big dogs and bring the bits and bytes to heel.When Roller's superiors discover the balance of power between the U.S. and Russia is about to run off the rails, she's called upon to head a cyber strike team and face off with her arch-nemesis, a female hacker from the depths of the Dark Net. There's $50 billion of oligarch money at play, bitcoins to intercept, and evidence of a surging cyberattack on the global infrastructure that could kill thousands.Some days it just doesn't pay to roll into work.BYTE spirals us into the underworld of cyber criminals who can make kings or break them - and shatter civilizations in a keystroke.

It was never about the donuts. Daddy Daughter Donut Day is a celebration of the relationship daddies have with their daughters. Being Daddy is tough. Both of you will cry, laugh and walk away angry. That's normal. The most important thing for daddies to do is NEVER give up on their daughers. Girls need Daddy in their life. They don't realize it early on, and they may take their Daddy for granted. However, one day they will realize the important role Daddy played in their life. Daddy Daughter Donut Day started as a lazy way for me to give my girls breakfast, but it became much more to me and them. It has become a way for us to talk about school, boys (ugh ) and their goals in life. We didn't realize it when we first started, but it was never about the donuts. Eric C. Anderson

THE SLAUGHTER OF THOUSANDS OF US CITIZENS IN BAGHDAD WASN'T ENOUGH--SO NOW THE CALIPHATE HAS A NEW PLANANUBIS, the second installment of Eric C. Anderson's thrilling "New Caliphate" trilogy, picks up where OSIRIS left off, on a roller-coaster of soldiers, spies, statesmen and sellouts, all thrown together either to save the world--or see it destroyed.Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant More and US Army Special Forces Major Faheem are once more thrust to the front as the world braces for a hurricane of terror.With an outrageously enigmatic US president dead, his most hated political opponent about to be inaugurated, and ISIS attacking on multiple global fronts, will America and her allies give in to the jihadi and withdraw from the Middle East? The only way for More and Faheem to prevent the crisis from becoming a catastrophe is to turn to More's nemesis ODIN--the ultimate cyber-warrior.With rivers of blood ready to run through the capitals of Europe, Africa, and Washington, D.C., the clock is ticking...

IT'S A DILEMMA NO WASHINGTON POLITICIAN WANTS TO CONFRONT--RESCUING 5,000 AMERICANS TRAPPED IN BAGHDAD. Enter a crusty Marine, embattled Army officer, two Turkish spies and the ultimate cyber-warrior tasked with countering an ISIS regime carving out a new caliphate. Can they rescue an American embassy under siege by a weapon that even Washington's military might can't defeat?OSIRIS takes readers on a twisted path from the glittering palaces of Qatar to the dusty hell of central Iraq, replete with drunken Russian pilots, conniving American politicians, and unlikely heroes. Based on the author's vast experience as a former member of the U.S. intelligence community, Anderson imbues OSIRIS with hard-won authenticity.This is the first book in a trilogy ripped from today's headlines that could leave tomorrow's Europe on the brink of a new Dark Age.

Contrary to lurid forecasts in the West that China is on track to wrest global hegemony from the United States by 2025, China is in fact positioning itself to resume its historic role as the "Middle Kingdom"—a senior mentor with benign aspirations for guiding Asia into the mid-21st century.In China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond, Eric C. Anderson challenges the widespread perception of China as a rising giant whose authoritarian program to supplant the United States as global hegemony poses a grave international threat. He weighs in against doomsday prophets such as Martin Jacques, who predicts that China's economy and diplomatic influence will equal those of the United States by 2025 and will eclipse them by a factor of two by 2050. Anderson, a player in Washington's China policy debates who enjoys deep access to Chinese intelligence sources, counters with a careful argument that Beijing's overriding aim is in fact to foster a stable global environment conducive to its economic development and regional hegemony based on legitimate political authority rather than coercion. Anderson points to three principal factors that will drive Chinese behavior over the next 10 years: the Chinese Communist Party's desire to be recognized as a responsible member of the international community; China's effort to equip, train, and maintain a modern military; and Beijing's campaign to "sell" her governance model—from economic development to serving a domestic constituency—as a direct competitor to Washington's version of liberal democracy. Asserting that Beijing is poised to serve as Washington's "peer competitor," Anderson offers insights as to what can be expected from China in the future, including facilitating U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts and participating in international peacekeeping operations.Original materials include Chinese documents concerning Beijing's domestic, economic, and military policies45 sidebars explain key words, concepts, and issues simply and clearly for the benefit of general readersA bibliography provides an extensive listing of contemporary materials concerning China's future intentions