China’s Assassin’s Mace Doctrine and America’s Vulnerable Electric Grid

On October 5, 2021, Kim Monson examines the growing threat from China with investigative journalist Joshua Philipp of the Epoch Times. The discussion spans the Chinese Communist Party’s warfare doctrine, America’s vulnerable electric grid, Taiwan tensions, and why the CCP’s aggressive posture reveals internal weakness rather than strength.

The CCP’s Assassin’s Mace Warfare Doctrine

Start listening at 29:25 – Hour 1

Joshua Philipp reveals the Chinese Communist Party’s Assassin’s Mace doctrine, a comprehensive warfare strategy specifically designed to bring America to its knees within two weeks. The doctrine includes high-earth orbit nuclear detonation to destroy America’s electric grid through electromagnetic pulse attacks, Mumbai-style terrorist attacks, and rapid invasion of key U.S. points.

Philipp explains that the CCP openly discusses these plans in military writings. Michael Pillsbury, applying Chinese tactics in Pentagon war games, achieved the first American loss in a simulated conflict. The strategy targets critical infrastructure, knowing that within 90 days of an EMP attack, most of the country would face catastrophic consequences from logistical failures, non-functioning emergency vehicles, and supply chain collapse.

Republicans have repeatedly attempted to strengthen electric grid protections against such attacks, but Democrats have consistently blocked these measures. The vulnerability extends to approximately 300 large transformers manufactured in China that potentially contain backdoor switches.

“As we speak right now, Xi Jinping is even telling his military to prepare for war. And yet, it’s not really being taken that seriously on the U.S. side. You know, we’re busy talking about transgenderism in the military, looking for ideological wrongdoing, whatever narrative they want to use right now. We’re too busy fighting ourselves over tiny things to focus on these serious threats being openly stated against us.”

Joshua Philipp, Award-Winning Investigative Journalist, Epoch Times

Taiwan Tensions and CCP Instability

Start listening at 41:49 – Hour 1

Philipp analyzes China’s air incursions into Taiwan airspace, explaining that while partly military posturing to map defensive responses, the behavior reflects deeper CCP aggression. Taiwan possesses a formidable military with underground bases and coastal cliffs that would make invasion extremely difficult. Japan has signaled willingness to defend Taiwan directly, fundamentally changing the strategic calculus.

The journalist identifies profound internal instability within China: a collapsing housing market, an export economy damaged by COVID and Trump-era tariffs, infighting among party leadership, and social unrest over pension losses. The CCP might seek a local war to redirect internal pressure outward, though any conflict would likely escalate rapidly due to the Quad Alliance between India, Japan, the United States, and Australia.

Philipp offers a crucial insight into CCP psychology. The party’s first priority is always its own survival, regardless of Chinese casualties. The current aggressive posture stems from weakness, not strength. Similar totalitarian overreach in Western governments reveals the same underlying insecurity.

“The Chinese Communist Party is not behaving in the way it is right now because it feels strong. It’s behaving in the way it is right now because it feels weak.”

Joshua Philipp, Host of Crossroads

A Grassroots Awakening

Start listening at 52:15 – Hour 1

Philipp concludes with a message of hope. Over 300 million Chinese have peacefully withdrawn their memberships from the Communist Party, Youth League, and Young Pioneers through the Tuidang movement. The grassroots unraveling of totalitarian power, invisible on the surface, may ultimately prove decisive. The aggressive tactics employed by authoritarian regimes often accelerate their own collapse by awakening opposition rather than suppressing it.