Maybe less.вЂќ Tufts University did have a basketball team, after all. вЂњCliff, the likelihood that Congress will roll over on the trade issue is right up there with Tufts making the Final Four. Any chance that we can make some concession, just to get things going?вЂќ вЂњOkay, I need to discuss this with the President, but youвЂ™re probably going to be flying home soon. Somebody needs to remind them that the Great Wall ultimately turned out to be a waste of bricks, EAGLE didnвЂ™t bother saying aloud. TheyвЂ™re stonewalling like weвЂ™re the Mongols and theyвЂ™re the Chin Dynasty.вЂќ вЂњAnd theyвЂ™re canceling the 777 order with Boeing, as we thought they would.вЂќДЄdler frowned powerfully into the phone. вЂњIt didnвЂ™t go well,вЂќ he informed SecState at once. вЂњRutledge here, Scott,вЂќ the voice said on the other side of the world. It took eleven seconds for the two STU units on opposite sides of the world to synchronize. Finally, the STU rang in its odd trilling warble. They were trying to make the TAPDANCE encryption system link into the STU units to generate a totally random and hence unbreakable signal, but that was proving difficult, for technical reasons that nobody had explained to the Secretary of State, and that was just as well. And that was about as secure as things got. It had a randomized 512-bit scrambling system that the best computers at Fort Meade could break about a third of the time after several days of directed effort. This one worked on a satellite-communications channel, and though its signal therefore sprinkled down all over the world from its Defense Department communications satellite, all the casual listener would get was raspy static, like the sound of water running out of a bathroom faucet. The вЂњsecure telephone unitвЂќ was a sophisticated encryption device grafted onto an AT&T-made digital telephone. On his desk was a STU-6 secure telephone. He was reading over post reports at the moment, waiting for the other shoe to drop in Beijing. SecState was usually a busy post, and lately it had been busier than usual, and Scott Adler was getting accustomed to fourteen-hour days. NavyВ attacks the Chinese mainland's coastal defenses and destroys much of theВ Chinese navy's aging fleet while it lies in port.В F-117 NighthawksВ destroy railroad bridges.It was late in Washington, and Adler was up late, again, working in his office. When the Chinese enter Siberia, the Russians repel their invasion force with help from theВ United States, causing heavy casualties on the Chinese side. Ryan persuadesВ NATOВ to admitВ Russia, and promises assistance against China to the Russian president.

With its economy already struggling due to recent military expansions, the country hastens its planned invasion ofВ SiberiaВ to access newly discovered oil and gold fields. International outrage over the incidents leads to a boycott on Chinese-made products. Two days later, police officers brutally break up a prayer service led by the Baptist minister's widow in their home, who had been outraged that her husband's body was cremated and dumped into a river without her permission. and China inВ Beijing, aВ CNNВ crew witnesses the murders of theВ Papal NuncioВ to the country and a ChineseВ BaptistВ minister, when the two attempt to stop Chinese authorities from performing aВ forced abortionВ on one of the latter's followers. Months later, during trade negotiations between the U.S. PresidentВ Jack RyanВ givesВ TaiwanВ diplomatic status, which is implied as retaliation toВ ChinaВ for secretly assisting in previous plots byВ JapanВ (Debt of Honor) andВ IranВ (Executive Orders) against the U.S. After the failed attempt on the SVR director's life, the Chinese later plot to assassinate the Russian president, but their agent, also a former KGB officer, was arrested by theВ FSB. Investigation of the incident by Russian police and later intelligence officers points out to involvement from Chinese intelligence, and that Golovko was the real target. In Moscow,В SVRВ director Sergey Golovko survives an attack on his way to work, when a car identical to the armored whiteВ MercedesВ that he was in was shot with anВ RPG-7, killing the occupants (one of them a formerВ KGBВ agent turned pimp) inside. The book debuted at number one onВ The New York TimesВ Best Seller list. At over 1,028 pages, it is Clancy's longest novel. A direct sequel toВ Executive OrdersВ (1996), PresidentВ Jack RyanВ deals with a war betweenВ RussiaВ andВ China, referred respectively in the title as theВ Russian BearВ and theВ Chinese Dragon. The Bear and the DragonВ is aВ techno-thriller novel, written byВ Tom ClancyВ and released on August 21, 2000. Putnam's Sons publishers, New York hardbound in black boards with gilt stampВ lettering on cover and spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.

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