It has long been heard that it is a best-selling book in the United States. In the first week of its publication, the book topped the best-seller list of the largest Amazon bookstore in the United States, and it was reprinted five times in the first five weeks of its publication. , This degree of popularity among readers is unprecedented in the history of American publishing.It is strange that the mainstream media in the United States, which is controlled by a large consortium, has kept an intriguing silence on such a best-selling book that has received unprecedented popularity, contrary to the routine of tracking and hyping hot topics to expand public influence.Of course, the author, John Perkins, narrates his personal experience in this book, exposing the little-known disgraceful side of American politics, intelligence agencies and large financial groups. If the mainstream American media feels that there are false statements in the book Or exaggerate and fabricate, you can criticize and criticize as much as you want to eliminate the adverse impact on the public, but this time, the mainstream media in the United States chose to deliberately avoid and remain silent.This situation aroused my strong interest in the subject even more.

John Perkins revealed in the book that economic killers wear legal cloaks such as economists, bankers, and international financial consultants, but actually shoulder the strategic task of establishing US global hegemony. The current "American Empire" is different from The powerful empires in history mainly manipulated other countries through the economy rather than force; "economic killers" did everything, such as bribery, pornography, threats, blackmail, and even assassination, to win over and control the political and economic elites of other countries; Make erroneous macroeconomic analysis and industrial investment suggestions, lure developing countries into pre-set economic traps, control the economic lifelines and natural resources of these countries, and let trillions of funds flow into the United States continuously through deceptive means, consolidate and expand American economic, political, and military hegemony around the world.John Perkins revealed that in the era of economic globalization, in order to establish global hegemony, the United States dispatched economic killers to various parts of the world to wage covert economic wars. The scale was unprecedentedly large and terrifying.

John Perkins wrote, this is the story of a world that belongs to you and me, a story of a truly global empire, where the vital interests of everyone in the world are affected, and each of us needs to care Only by working hard to change its course can it prevent it from ending in a tragedy that endangers all mankind.Because of this, whenever this book is translated into different languages ​​and published in different countries, it is generally welcomed by the public all over the world.The reason why this book is widely welcomed by different readers from all over the world is that it has high historical value, academic value and entertainment value. The hidden rules and dark side of globalized economic operation, the author said that his experience is not like that of a professional economist, but more like James Bond in the "007" movie. Indeed, the story is complex, tortuous and fascinating, no less than Hollywood The blockbuster "007" is even better in terms of authenticity and closeness to ordinary public life.

The concept of an economic killer as described by John Perkins is familiar to me. In the 1980s, when I studied in Japan to study international relations, I knew that the theory of international "détente" prevailed in the United States in the late Vietnam War. Use economic leverage to cultivate strategic dependence, and form a network of new policy weapons that dominate the world structure through trade, finance, loans, energy, food and other bargaining chips. In 1999, through long-term painstaking research, I wrote the book "The Covert War Threatening China", which discussed why the United States shifted from the "Cold War" to the "Détente" strategy, using political, diplomatic, economic and other means to secretly plan the global covert economy The offensive of war against international opponents seeking to establish world hegemony.I think covert economic warfare poses a more realistic threat to China than military attacks. It not only threatens national security and economic lifelines, but also directly threatens the vital interests of ordinary people.

To my great satisfaction, the inside story of a large number of economic killers revealed in John Perkins' book proved the analysis and judgment I made in "The Hidden War Threatening China" with rich, detailed and irrefutable historical facts , the covert economic war idea put forward by American international strategic experts is indeed not just the rhetoric of literati, nor did it stay at the stage of academic research and theoretical discussion. The deadly "killer" of the war.It was in 1971, when the United States was in deep trouble in Vietnam, that John Perkins began to be trained by the US National Security Agency, a larger and more secretive intelligence agency than the CIA, to become a Economic killers of imperial warriors in armor, continuing on the economic front the wars America has lost on the battlefield, serving in pursuit of the hegemonic goal of building a global empire of the United States.John Perkins wrote in the book that at that time, the United States had clearly realized that if it wanted to realize the dream of a global empire, it must develop the successful strategy of the United States in planning the coup in Iran in the 1950s into an economic strategy. The hidden war launched by the killer, "this is the only way to avoid a nuclear disaster and defeat the Soviet Union without leaving a drop of blood."

It is worth pointing out that the inside story of the economic killer revealed by John Perkins is not an isolated statement that lacks circumstantial evidence. A large number of historical materials disclosed by the West have confirmed the authenticity of the US economic killer and the hidden economic war from different aspects. In 1996, Peter Schwartz, a former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency, wrote and published a book entitled "Victory - The Secret Strategy of the Reagan Administration against the Former Soviet Union", which revealed that in the 1980s the US Central Intelligence Agency hired a large number of Experts, including experts in international politics, economics, psychology, etc., planned behind-the-scenes activities to dismantle the former Soviet Union's secret strategy.Schwartz wrote in the book that in order to implement the secret strategy, CIA Director Casey was given great power by President Reagan, surpassing the previous CIA Directors of previous governments, he could directly enter the President’s Oval Office and demand diplomatic, economic , the military department to cooperate, and the authority of international affairs is even the same as that of the Secretary of State. In March 2004, the United States published the book "The Abyss: The History of the Cold War as Remembered by an Insider", authored by Thomas Reed, who served as Secretary of the Air Force and a member of the National Security Council.His book revealed that in the late Cold War, the CIA led by William Casey launched a "ruthless economic war" against the Soviet Union, including using false technical information to cause a gas pipeline in Siberia to explode, destroying the profits of the former Soviet Union. It is the key energy industry to take foreign exchange hard currency.Today, when the disintegration of the former Soviet Union led to an imbalance in the world structure, the United States has long disdained to continue to conceal its ambition to seek global hegemony.In recent years, senior officials of the U.S. and British governments have been agitating for the theory of new imperialism, openly proposing a grand blueprint for the establishment of a new Roman Empire, and claiming that international economic organizations such as the International Monetary Fund are tools of new imperialism that can be used, including deception. The 'rule of the jungle' against China and third world countries.Stiglitz, a famous American economist who won the Nobel Prize, also exposed the "Washington Consensus" that the United States manipulated international financial institutions to enforce neoliberalism through his personal experience as the vice president of the World Bank, deliberately misleading the former Soviet Union The economic reforms of the transitional countries and developing countries in Eastern Europe led to the outbreak of economic and financial crises and the inside story of social disasters.If these evidences exposed from different aspects are connected, we can clearly see the huge scale of the US's global covert economic war, and the terrible shadow of economic killers in every corner of the world is almost everywhere. interests also pose a serious threat.

In this severe international situation, the publication of the Chinese translation has extremely important practical significance for us to re-understand the world economy in the era of globalization and safeguard China's economic and financial security and the interests of the people.It is worth reading for different readers in China, including government officials, entrepreneurs, economic workers, intellectuals and the general public.As described by John Perkins in the book, economic killers dress like academics, teachers and ordinary businessmen. Around the world, they look like ordinary entrepreneurs, bankers and government officials. The outside world is ordinary and humble, always claiming to bring various benefits to the people of other countries, and talking about the miracle of economic growth in a high-sounding manner. However, if we cannot identify economic killers, we may fall into a trap at any time.Government officials, entrepreneurs, and economists should especially bear in mind John Perkins’ warning that one of the important strategic tasks of the US economic killers is to win over and corrupt the political and economic elites of all countries in the world by all means, through bribery, sex appeal, and the use of Corruption evidence threatens and blackmails them, presents them with wrong macroeconomic analysis and economic development suggestions, lures them into economic traps and creates strategic dependence, and then buys cheaply, controls economic lifelines, strategic industries and natural resources, and induces economic crises and social unrest It even created a color revolution, which eventually led to China becoming a "banana republic" similar to Latin America. It was mired in poverty but could not get rid of its attachment to the United States.In this regard, the elites of Russia, Argentina and other countries are good examples. Gaidar, Chubais, and Carvalho, who were once known as the "fathers of the market" and "fathers of privatization", actively promoted neoliberalism. The reform serves the global interests of the United States, but it has caused huge damage to the domestic economy and the interests of the general public.Gaidar and Chubais have almost become "street rats" that everyone shouted and beaten in Russia, and they have also become targets of criticism and ridicule in the Western economic circles. After the US occupied Iraq, they were hired to design privatization reforms and act as even Western economists are not ashamed to play the role, fully exposing their comprador status under the control of the US economic killers.Former Argentine Minister of Economy Carvalho was praised by the United States for promoting privatization. After the outbreak of the financial crisis, he was arrested on suspicion of violating the economic security law. He was charged with leaking secrets to US multinational banks to facilitate capital flight and evade controls.Politicians in Russia and Argentina, such as former presidents Yeltsin and Menem, have also become discredited because they reused neoliberal economists to bring about social disasters.Former Argentine President Menem, who appointed Carvalho as Minister of Economy, was wanted for extradition by Argentina on suspicion of privatization and corruption; corrupt government officials in Argentina who were bought by economic killers made a lot of money by selling state-owned enterprises at a low price. However, it suffered heavy losses in the banking crisis and stock market crash, and was looted by even more greedy American financial predators.Yeltsin also regretted that it was "Chubais' fault" who was in charge of privatization. He finally realized the harm of economists' lack of national security awareness, and the last three prime ministers appointed were all from the national security department.After Putin came to power, in order to resist the threat of the infiltration of American economic killers, a large number of officials from the security department were appointed to various government departments, localities and large enterprises. The public is overwhelmingly supportive of Putin's crackdown on oligarchs and the renationalization of the energy industry.

It is also worth reading for the general public, not only because it is a more exciting true story than detective novels, but also because the stories it tells are closely related to the interests of the general public.As John Perkins described in the book, in order to seek global economic, political and military hegemony, the United States not only regards an influential big country like China as a thorn in its side, but also does not spare small capitalist countries in Latin America such as Ecuador ,Panama.John Perkins himself, as the chief economist of a multinational company, went to Ecuador and Panama to participate in economic consulting on power plant construction projects. In fact, he was carrying out the strategic mission assigned by the US government to the economic killer.What John Perkins felt deeply condemned later was that after Ecuador, rich in oil resources, fell into the trap set by the economic killer, economic growth did not bring any benefits to the general public, while the population struggling on the poverty line From 50% to 70%, the underemployment and unemployment rate soared from 15% to 70%, and the national debt soared from 240 million US dollars to 16 billion US dollars.John Perkins wrote, "Ecuador is not alone in the world. Almost every country that has been snatched by economic killers under the 'umbrella' of the United States has suffered the same fate." "In many countries, economic The beneficiaries of growth are only a few, while the majority get poorer."What is even more infuriating is that honest politicians in those Latin American countries who care about ordinary people, even though they are friendly to the United States and believe in capitalist democracy, are often labeled as radical leftists who support communism, and economic killers. persecuted, ostracized and even assassinated, and then replaced by corrupt officials willing to accept the bribes of economic killers.

Fortunately for the world, after many years of painful inner conflicts and ideological struggles, John Perkins finally mustered up the courage to tell the truth about economic killers to people all over the world. Deeply repenting for his crimes, he believes that the United States is betraying the spirit of the republic established in its founding charter, and has turned to emulate the colonialism of the British Empire against which the American Founding Fathers rebelled. In the countryside of England, the brave lone knight who loudly sounded the "British is coming" alarm called on the people of the world to rise up and respond like the people of the United States back then, and stop the United States from seeking to establish a global imperial hegemony like the United Kingdom did.I deeply admire the spirit of John Perkins, and sincerely hope that his kind wishes will come true.

Yang Bin was born in Beijing on September 8, 2006. Yang Bin, born in Beijing in 1957, male, native of Dapu County, Guangdong Province, studied in Japan and the United States in the 1980s, is currently an associate researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, research direction: system Economics, corporate economics, national economic and financial security, major works: "Concealed War Threatening China - US Covert Economic War and Reform Trap", "Soft War - US Economic and Military Hegemony Challenges China". The Birth of an Economic Hitman The beginning of things is actually very simple.