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Against his advisors' opinions, Ryan decides to broadcast CNN's coverage of the war, plus direct feeds from U.S. Navy attacks the Chinese mainland coastal defenses and destroys much of the Chinese Navy's fledgling fleet, which also includes their only nuclear submarine, holding half of their nuclear capacity. Russia eventually repels the Chinese with help from the United States and NATO, in the process completely annihilating two Chinese Shock-Army formations and severely crippling two others. China invades anyway despite international assistance pledged to Russia. In an attempt to dissuade China from invading Russia, President Jack Ryan persuades NATO to admit Russia, and he personally promises assistance to Russia's President Grushavoy. With its economy struggling due to recent military expansions, China decided to hasten its planned invasion of Siberia in order to access the newly discovered oil and gold fields. In reaction to this incident, the American public starts to boycott chinese manufactured products, and President Ryan threatens to re-enact the Trade Reforms Act, brought in during Debt of Honour.
The men were attempting to prevent Chinese authorities from performing a forced late-term abortion on a member of Yu's congregation, but the situation escalated when an armed police officer in the room thought that his partner being shot at. Despite this failure, the Chinese manage to kill one of the chairman's former colleagues using the same method.Ī roving CNN news team in China captures on videotape the murder of Cardinal Renato di Milo, the Papal Nuncio to Beijing, and a Chinese Baptist minister, Yu Fa An. However, his life is spared when the hired assassins mistakenly fire on an identical car. The first stage consists of attempting to kill the chairman of the SVR, Sergey Nickolayevich Golovko, by shooting a RPG-7 round at his Mercedes S600 in Moscow's rush hour. However, China decides to speed up its plan to invade Siberia. After Russia discovers oil fields rivaling those of the Persian Gulf in Siberia and gold deposits just as big, it looks as if the struggling Russian economy is on the road to recovery. An unabridged version is also available.Jack Ryan is still President of the United States. Please note: This is the abridged edition.
If they fail.the consequences may be unspeakable.īlending the exceptional realism and authenticity that are his hallmarks with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, this is Clancy at his best - and there is none better. If they succeed, the world as we know it will never look the same. Tired of what they view as the presumption of the West, eager to fulfill their destiny, they are taking matters into their own hands. For even while Russian investigators pursue the case, and some of his most trusted eyes and ears - including antiterrorism specialist John Clark - head to Moscow, forces in China are moving ahead with a plan of truly audacious proportions. Were they political enemies, the Russian Mafia, disaffected former KGB? Or, Ryan wonders, is something far more dangerous at work here? Things are unstable enough in Russia without high-level assassination, but even more disturbing may be the identities of the potential assassins. Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan has found that being President hasn't gotten any easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn the Asian economy is going down the tubes and in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman of the SVR - the former KGB - with a rocket-propelled grenade. In The Bear and The Dragon, the future is very near at hand indeed.