'America Hawks'

choi

Tom Mitchell and Xinning Liu, America Hawks' in China Say Cold War Predictions Have Come True; Writers who warned US was bent on thwarting Beijing appear prescient. Financial Times, Dec 8, 2018, ay page 3.
https://www.ft.com/content/d425ee0a-f9bf-11e8-8b7c-6fa24bd5409c

Quote:

(a) the first six paragraphs:

"The epiphany that inspired Wang Xiangsui's 王湘穗 best known book came when he was a 41-year-old colonel in China's air force, posted near the Taiwan strait.

"It was March 1996 and the People’s Liberation Army had launched military exercises intended to intimidate Taiwanese voters ahead of their self-ruled island’s first presidential election. The Chinese government feared that Lee Teng-hui, the incumbent and eventual winner of the election, was determined to formalise Taiwan’s de facto independence.

"As the crisis escalated, Mr Wang felt that Mr Lee was more worried about the exercises’ effect on Taiwan's stock market than he was about the PLA missiles splashing down in the island’s territorial waters. If falling share prices made people feel poorer, Mr Wang reckoned, they might be less inclined to vote for Mr Lee.

" 'That's when we military guys realised that the objective of war could change,' Mr Wang, now a 64-year-old professor at a Beijing aeronautical university 北京航空航天大学, told the Financial Times. 'It wasn't just about seizing an island.” 

"Three years later [1999], while still in the PLA, he and a fellow officer would co-write Unrestricted Warfare 超限战, a treatise about the many fronts — trade, economic, technological, psychological — on which a weaker country [China, not Taiwan] can challenge a militarily more powerful rival.

"Thanks to Unrestricted Warfare, Mr Wang enjoys a reputation as one of China's leading 'America hawks.' Another hawk is Song Qiang 宋强, a 54-year-old former journalist and co-author of tomes including China Can Say No 中国可以说不 [1996], China Can Still Say No 中国还是能说不 and China is Not Happy 中国不高兴 [主编宋晓军]. China Can Say No, Mr Song's first and most famous book, was published five months after the Taiwan missile crisis that inspired Mr Wang.

(b) "Thanks to the new cold war 'China hawks' in Washington are urging Donald Trump to wage against China and its ruling Communist party, Beijing-based America hawks such as Mr Wang and Mr Song now look prescient for having warned about Washington's apparent determination to contain China long before such views became fashionable.
(c) captions of three photos (Wang, Song and book): "Hawk-eyed: Wang Xiangsui in Beijing, above, Right, Song Qiang and the translated version of Mr Wang's book which he says was pirated [In English, title: Unrestricted Warfare; China's master plan to destroy America. Book cover is twin towers of World Trade Center burning on Sept 11, 2001]”

Note:
(a) The report is available to the public, if you answer a survey question in business.
(b) "America Hawks" in the title?  This is the first time I see such a term, which is explained in the last paragraph of quotation (a) plus quotation (b).
(c) Today is Saturday. There is no translation of this report in FT中文网.