Product Description

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

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #291411 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-29
• Original language: English
• 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

Navarro's War
It is hard to take this book seriously. It is a rant in language calclated to engender rage and despair among American readers, particularly those affected by competition with China. Allegations are, however, unsupported by numbers and facts. Quotations are identified only by the name of the source, hence cannot be checked. Very little consideration is given to the most dangerous source of possible warfare, the conflict over Taiwan. There are no references for each chapter.
Navarro may have a following among some investors and businessmen. This book does him no credit, and surely does nothing for his reputation as an analyst of international affairs.

What is it really about?
"The Coming China Wars" by Peter Navarro is probably one of the most advertised China-related books this year. For weeks it nailed the small Adsense box on my Inside-out China blog (apparently Google did a good job of matchmaking), and I got so tired of seeing it all day everyday that I deleted Adsense. The book thus made my blog ad-free.

The question is whether it is worth the advertising money or a reader's time.

In all fairness, this book does highlight some extremely difficult problems that are facing not just the United States, but the entire world. Resource, especially energy shortages, environmental degradation, the threat of international conflict and widespread poverty and inequality are very real and very serious issues.

It is strange, though, that Navarro would attribute so much of the cause of these to China, given that all of these issues have been pointed out again and again by many people since the original publication of The Limits to Growth in 1972. Certainly at that time nobody was expecting that China would be what Navarro repeatedly calls "the world's factory floor."

What is true about China, is that it has been remarkably fast in its track to catch up to the United States. Again, at least since 1972, people have asked the question "what would happen if everyone in the world had the consumption habits of the average American?" Now, with the world's most populous country about ¼ of the way there, perhaps the answer is clearer, and it is certainly frightening. With India, and other countries in Asia, also getting ready to rocket ahead, stopping China in its tracks, as this book admonishes, even if it were possible, is not a good answer.

The world is faced with some real tough times and some very creative solutions are going to be called for. Telling people in China, or any developing nation, to give up getting rich quickly is much like telling American's to give up 80% of their wealth. It generates anger and outrage, but doesn't accomplish anything. The book recommends a very serious effort by the United States government to deal with energy and environmental issues. That is laudable advice, but the American centric focus is not productive. The things being talked about above are global in nature and no single country can carve out a solution in isolation. There is a strong need to cooperate and share human and information resources. More importantly, and this will be very difficult indeed, huge investment by developed countries into developing countries may be the only viable solution. Unfortunately, the book does not provide any useful suggestions for progress on these issues.

It has always amazed me that the people who are most critical of China are precisely those that don't seem to be able to break from the one literary form perfected under Communism. "The Coming China Wars," with the exception of the last chapter, reads very much like the official texts I recited as a child during the Cultural Revolution. No tarnish or impurities have been introduced in this Made in America diatribe against the horrors of the red enemy in the east. Chapters open with quotations from, usually, respectable people or publications, then continue on in declarations that are not backed by any evidence. Presumably the quotations were imbedded in writings that did contain evidence, but Navarro dispenses with that.

In keeping with this form, little that is said in "The Coming China Wars" is explicitly false, it is simply somewhat twisted in its logic. If America does something it is good. If China does something it is bad. It matters little what the thing is, or if it is the same thing. I got a real kick out of the statement: "Whereas the United States focuses on ensuring the security of the international oil market, China has adopted a 'bilateral contracting approach' in which it seeks to lock down the physical supplies of the oil-producing countries." That focus on ensuring security is probably not apparent to most people living outside the United States. And of bilateral agreements, it is best not to forget the Shah of Iran and the response to his ousting that brought Saddam Hussein to the forefront.

If you are going to read the book anyway, you'd be better off skipping the first eleven chapters and going straight to the 12th. After struggling through the text, the last chapter seemed like a breath of fresh air, but it is only in comparison to the rest of the book.

What the last chapter contains is a sequence of policy recommendations that, though rather twisted in their presentation, do have some coherency. To save you a little bit of pain, let me summarize them here:

* Consumers should shy away from products made in China and let retailers and manufacturers know that they are doing this.
* People should pressure government officials to get serious about dealing with issues related to China.
* Businesses should diversify manufacturing away from China and increase quality control on products made in China.
* As a nation the United States should learn to live within its means which means not running a trade or budget deficit.
* The federal government should

1. Push for strict adherence to the principles of free trade.
2. Pass laws making currency manipulation strictly illegal.
3. Prosecute to the full extent of the law anyone involved in piracy or counterfeiting and closely monitor internet sales of pharmaceuticals.
4. Increase the inspection of foods and pass laws to increase accountability for any tainted products.
5. Undertake a massive program to remove the dependence of the US on foreign energy supplies.
6. Condemn China for its abuse of veto power on the UN Security Council, then remove China as a permanent member of that body.
7. Increase spending on programs such as the Voice of America and do more diplomatic work abroad.
8. Agree to strict carbon controls and impose a corresponding carbon tax on all products regardless of country of origin.
9. Prohibit US companies from working with Chinese authorities to identify internet users.
10. Pay more attention to Taiwan and pressure China to decrease its nuclear arsenal.
11. Increase the budget spent on counter espionage.
12. Increase NASA's budget and focus funding on private space ventures.

This was not really put forward as a 12 point plan, but all that expanded spending does seem appropriate for a campaign year.

I have, of course, saved the best policy recommendation for last. This actually falls under the heading of what voters should do and it is:

* "Help spread the word! Give your copy of The Coming China Wars to a friend, or donate your copy to your local library."

And such self-promotion is not out of character with the rest of the book. #

(Xujun Eberlein is the author of Apologies Forthcoming)

The Coming China Wars
This book is a most informative book detailing the causes of the massive changes taking place in the western world today through the agency of China. China is affecting everyone. A must read book. Wayne Butcher