reconnaissance drones, over a CIA web site to counter the Chinese government's domestic propaganda about the war's status and purpose.Īs the war turns against China, Beijing's increasingly desperate leaders decide to ready their ICBMs for a potential launch.
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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. Their redemption will be without cost.Jack Ryan is still President of the United States.
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He will set the captives free and take them to their heavenly home. In the same way, Christ will overthrow spiritual The decree issued by Cyrus was that the Israelites were to be freed, that they could return to their homeland without cost. He endedīabylon’s rule and set the captives free. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners (Isaiah 61:1 NIV).Ĭyrus serves as a type of Christ. The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. The same prophet, prophesying about the Messiah, wrote this: Hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut (Isaiah 45:1 NIV). This is what the LORD says to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right Long before Cyrus` ’ birth, the prophet Isaiah called him the Lord's anointed: This power is portrayed in Daniel 7 as aīear was raised up on one of its sides, referring to the initial inequality of the two powers of the Medo-Persian alliance that was to overthrow the Babylonian Empire.Ĭyrus is the one chosen by God to accomplish this great feat. We know from the statue prophecy of Daniel 2 and from history that the Medo-Persian Empire would rise afterīabylon.