<p>The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing that began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful democratic state. </p><p>Forty years later the hope of producing a benign People's Republic of China utterly failed. The Communist Party of China deceived the West into believing that its system and the Party-ruled People's Liberation Army were peaceful and posed no threat. In fact these misguided policies produced the emergence of a twenty-first century Evil Empire even more dangerous than a Cold War version in the Soviet Union.</p><p>Successive American presidential administrations were fooled by ill-advised pro-China policymakers intelligence analysts and business leaders who facilitated the rise not of a peaceful China but of a threatening and expansionist nuclear-armed communist dictatorship focused on a single overriding strategic objective: weakening and destroying the United States of America. </p><p>Defeating the United States is the first step for China's current rulers in achieving global supremacy under a new world order based on an ideology of Communism with Chinese characteristics. </p><p><i>Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy </i>details the failure to understand the nature and activities of the dangers posed by China and what the United States can do in taking needed steps to counter the threats.</p>