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Natural Law & China’s Mandate of Heaven

How Eastern & Western Thought Impact Policy, Strategy & Statesmanship

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Robert J. Peale, 2025

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The Dragon Slayer

A Primer on Countering China’s Strategic Encirclement of America

Robert J. Peale, 2024


Chinese Philosophy

The Analects of Confucius

A Philosophical Translation

Confucius (Roger Ames & Henry Rosemont, Trans.), 1999

Dao De Jing

A Philosophical Translation

Laozi (Roger Ames & David Hall, Trans.), 2003

The Five Confucian Classics

A Philosophical Translation

Confucius (Michael Nyland, Trans.), 2014

Confucianism

The Four Books and Five Classics – Collected Works of Confucius

Confucius (James Legge, Trans.), 2016

The Book of Lord Shang

Apologetics of State Power in Early China

Shang Yang (Yuri Pines, Trans.), 2019

The Buddhist Tradition

In India, China and Japan

William Theodore de Bary, 1972

World Religions and Cults

Moralistic, Mythical, and Mysticism Religions, Vol. 2

Bode Hodge & Roger Patterson, 2016

God’s Promise to the Chinese

A Philosophical Translation

Ethel R. Nelson & Richard E. Broadberry, 1997


Chinese Communism

Mao’s Great Famine

The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962


Frank Dikötter, 2018

From Rebel to Ruler

One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

Tony Saich, 2021

The Party

The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers

Richard McGregor, 2012

Communism

A History

Richard Pipes, 2003


Natural Law Philosophy

Republic

Plato (G.M.A. Grube, Trans.), 1992

Five Dialogues

Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

Plato (G.M.A. Grube, Trans.), 2002

Politics

Aristotle (Benjamin Jowett), 2017

The Nicomachean Ethics

David Ross, Trans., 2009

On Law, Morality, and Politics

Thomas Aquinas (Richard Regan, Trans.), 2002

On Kingship

To the King of Cyprus

Thomas Aquinas, 2015

On Obligations: De Officiis

Cicero (P.G. Welsh, Trans.), 2008

The Republic and the Laws

Cicero (Niall Rudd, Trans.), 2009

City of God

St. Augustine (Henry Bettenson, Trans.), 2004

Secular Authority

To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed

Martin Luther, 1523

The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Chapter XX: Of Civil Government

John Calvin, 1537


Encirclement & Strategy

The Hundred-Year Marathon

China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury, 2016

Deceiving the Sky

China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Bill Gertz, 2021

Active Defense

China’s Military Strategy Since 1949

Taylor Fravel, 2019

The Long Game

China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

Rush Doshi, 2021

War Without Rules

China’s Playbook for Global Domination 

Robert Spalding, 2022

Winning the New Cold War

A Plan for Countering China 

The Heritage Foundation, 2023


Chinese Influence & Political Corruption

Red-Handed

How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

Peter Schweizer, 2022

China & the World

David Shambaugh, 2020

Active Defense

China’s Military Strategy Since 1949

Taylor Fravel, 2019


Chinese Intelligence

Chinese Intelligence Operations

Nicholas Eftimiades, 1994

Operations and Tactics. Vol. I.

A Series on Chinese Espionage

Nicholas Eftimiades, 2020

Chinese Communist Espionage

An Intelligence Primer

Peter Mattis & Matthew Brazil, 2019

110 Overseas

Chinese Transnational Policing Gone Wild

Safeguard Defenders, 2022


Ancient to Modern Chinese Military Thought

The Tao of Deception

Unorthodox Warfare in Historic China

Ralph D. Sawyer, 2007

Un-Restricted Warfare

Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui