Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept is a 2019 book by Robert Spalding about the United States' foreign relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC), the influence of the PRC in the United States, and the nature of the geo-political rivalry between the two countries.

He also argues that the PRC has been conducting a covert aggressive campaign to undermine and eventually usurp American power since the 1990s.

[2] This includes a campaign against American values globally as enshrined in the Atlantic Charter such as support for democratic forms of government and human rights.

[3] The book outlines, and gives examples of, a number of American grievances with PRC policies such as: Spalding argues that increasingly, with the advent of technologies such as 5G, one's existence within the internet will place one in this conflict regardless of individual choice; a technology conflict that the PRC has developed very strong capabilities in.

[4] Spalding states that over the past three decades the PRC has used these practices to expand its military, industrial and technological power whilst the United States has greatly reduced or outsourced its industrial base and lost much of its technological lead.