Liu, Mingfu, 1951-

Colonel (ret.) Liu Mingfu (刘明福) is a retired Chinese PLA officer and noted Chinese author, public speaker, and hawkish military commentator. As the author of well-known nationalist book China Dream: The Great Power Thinking and Strategic Positioning of China in the Post-American Era, Liu argues that China should displace the United States as world leader. Liu advocates that China's pursuing a "military rise" will allow it to rival and then surpass America's role as a source of global order, in an Olympic-style competition between civilizations. Liu has taken inspiration from Union tactics in the American Civil War in a potential war of unification with Taiwan. Along with co-author Wang Zhongyuan, Liu's book Xi Jinping sixiang (literally, Xi Jinping Thought) was the first public usage of that formulation.: 25