The Red Dragon Digest – Introduction
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From Storm to Surveillance: The Struggle Continues
The Gathering Storm mapped the rise of Communist China—its reach, methods, and ambitions. What began as trade leverage and soft diplomacy hardened into surveillance, debt traps, coercive diplomacy, and military escalation. The storm didn’t just gather. It broke.
But storms pass. Occupations don’t.
This new series—The Red Dragon Digest —tracks what remains after the weather turns violent: the entrenched ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party, operating not in thunder but in silence. Through backdoors and buyouts, port deals and pipelines, proxy wars and propaganda, the dragon doesn’t sleep. It adapts. It embeds.
Each file in this series is a marker of that movement. It is a record of aggression—military, economic, technological, or cultural—a ledger of tactics aimed not at cooperation but control.
We are not in peacetime. We are in a long, quiet confrontation—where the battlefield is digital, the front lines are economic, and the consequences are global.
Why This Matters Now
China has:
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Burrowed into our infrastructure via Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon, waiting for the right switch to flip.
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Turned TikTok and semiconductors into instruments of psychological and strategic influence.
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Purchased gold, ports, farmland, and silence—while building the world’s largest navy and the digital blueprints for dominance.
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Exploited every open door, every weak law, every distracted administration.
And while our diplomats talk in public, China builds in secret.
The Purpose of This Series
The Red Dragon Digest is not a look back. It is not neutral. And it is not a call for managed decline.
It is a record of what free nations must confront.
It is for those who believe:
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Trade must be fair, or not at all.
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Supply chains must serve freedom, not fund tyranny.
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Cybersecurity is national security.
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And the post-WWII order cannot survive in post-truth China.
What Comes Next
Each entry in this series will:
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Track new intelligence and credible reports.
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Expose movements in China’s economic, military, digital, or diplomatic strategy.
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Call out complicit actors—foreign and domestic—who continue to aid Beijing’s ambitions.
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And propose what must be done, not just said.
This is not hysteria. It is history in motion.
And we will watch it—file by file.
“The dragon does not retreat. It reroutes.”
Welcome to The Red Dragon Digest.