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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #259017 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-29
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

From Publishers Weekly
In this comprehensive, contemporary look at the awakening giant that is China, Peter Navarro describes an emerging power beleaguered by both internal and external threats-if the Japanese don't get them, AIDS and SARS will. This will reassure those readers who are increasingly convinced that the Chinese will eat us for lunch. However, as Navarro points out, China's human and natural resources make her a formidable global player-and her native, amoral ruthlessness suggests she will win. Still, as a nation undergoing its Industrial Revolution in the Information Age, China has her problems transitioning from Communism to capitalist imperialism, as seems to be her goal. True, government and industry have forged strong bonds (that allow them to exploit slave labor and ignore environmental and economic constraints that hamper other nations), but like any modern nation, China is paying the price of competing in a global economy: pollution; rapacious private medical care expenses; an aging, under-pensioned population; international tensions; and a large and disgruntled peasant working class. Navarro, whose inclination to breathless hyperbole makes even a chapter on dam construction exciting, tellingly devotes 10 chapters to China's problems and one to their solution-essentially tired policy prescriptions (wean the U.S. from oil dependence and cheap Chinese imports). This informative book will teach readers to understand the dragon, just not how to vanquish it.
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Review

“In this informative volume, Navarro explores China's impact on the world and the perils it creates. … This provocative and potentially controversial book will be of value to a wide audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended.

--CHOICE, April 2007

“…serves as an important touchstone for any prudent discussion regarding the implications to China's growth. For those unfamiliar with China's ecological disaster, natural-resource crisis or aging and soon to be inverted demographics, this book is a very good introduction.”

--Benjamin A Shobert, Asia Times

"In this comprehensive examination of China's mushrooming economy, Navarro masterfully illuminates the dark sides of China's great leaps into privatization and globalization." --Cecil Johnson, Boston Globe

From the Back Cover

China's breakneck industrialization is placing it on a collision course with the entire world. Tomorrow's China Wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and leading-edge technologies to strategic resources such as oil, copper, and steel...even food, water, and air. In The Coming China Wars, best-selling author Peter Navarro previews all these potential conflicts—and reveals the urgent, radical decisions that must be made to avoid catastrophe.

You'll learn how China's thirst for oil is driving nuclear proliferation in Iran, genocide in the Sudan, even Japan's remilitarization. You'll discover China's shocking role in the drug trade and how its reborn flesh trade may help trigger tomorrow's worst AIDS crisis. Navarro also reveals how China has become the world's most ruthless imperialist...how it is promoting global environmental disaster... and, perhaps most terrifying of all, how this nuclear superpower and pirate nation may be spiraling toward internal chaos.

The threat is real. We all must come to understand it and then act! Start here and now by arming yourself with the information and insights of The Coming China Wars.

The "China Price": Conquering the world's export markets

The real story behind China’s “weapons of mass production”

China versus U.S.: The "blood for oil" flashpoints

The coming U.S./China showdown over oil

Pirate Nation: China's state-sanctioned thievery

How China's counterfeit drugs and products can literally kill you

Triggering tomorrow's worst AIDS crisis

China's 21st century flesh trade: The seeds of a global health disaster

"Peter Navarro has captured the breadth of areas where China and the United States have fundamental conflicts of business, economic and strategic interests. He puts this into a global context demonstrating where China's current development course can lead to conflict. His recommendations for nations to coalesce to respond to the challenges posed by China are practical. This book should be in the hands of every businessperson, economist and policy-maker."

–Dr. Larry M. Wortzel, Chairman, US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

"The Coming China Wars is a gripping, fact-filled account of the dark side of China's rise that will be of interest to anyone interested in this complex and fascinating country. Navarro makes no pretense toward searching for the middle ground in the China debate. He issues a call to arms for China and the rest of the world to act now to address the country's mounting problems–pollution, public health, intellectual property piracy, resource scarcity and more–or risk both serious instability within China and military conflict between China and other major powers."

–Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

"What Al Gore does for climate change, Peter Navarro does for China. This book will hit you right between the eyes. A gargantuan wake-up call."

–Stuart L. Hart, S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell University, Author of "Capitalism at the Crossroads"

"The Coming China Wars has a wealth of fascinating information about the impact of China on the world and the perils it creates.

Because of China's great importance, this is a book we should all read."

–D. Quinn Mills, Alfred J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

"This is a well researched and illuminating book and is a necessary counter to a large body of opinion that posits an inevitable and even peaceful rise of China and chooses to ignore most of the author's message."

–Richard Fisher, Vice President, International Assessment and Strategy Center

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Customer Reviews

worth buying
Slower delivery, but great condition. Appreciate the quality. This book is informative of today's China business, trade, public policies, etc.

Fast notes on big issues.
The author, Peter Navarro, is a professor of business at UC Irvine. His book "the Coming China Wars" is written like a business textbook, clear, concise, and to the point. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue (e.g. counterfeit goods, water projects, illicit drug production etc.) and how, if unresolved, civil disorder, has or could result.

The breadth of issues addressed Navarro addresses is amazing, yet the author's provides sufficient detail that almost any reader will learn something new. At time, the phrases such as the "china price" and "factory floor to the world" are a little overworked, but this is a very minor flaw.

Some readers might find the title "the coming wars (plural) . . " misleading. Howvever, the author, very early in his book states he does not mean a shooting war (though this is still possible over Taiwan). The "wars" he writes about are political, not military.

Navarro makes some suggestions about how China (and other nations) can avoid these "wars" but after laying out his case "for war" so forcefully, these suggestions seem weak.

Still, a very good, if business style, read.

politics aside - this book makes you think
Try to look past the author's political bias and you'll find that it really is an in-depth analysis. It is very very well researched. Regardless of how we feel about the country, facts are facts.

This book should be read by everyone who wishes to understand China's challenges as it is about to enter and lead the modern world. The country is obviously quite complex and I imagine there will be plenty of info here that even most Chinese readers will find novel, surprising (and in some cases disturbing).

This book should be read as a compilation of challenges facing China (even though its difficult to do with the author's negative tone).