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The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Navarro
Publisher: FT Press
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Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 28539
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Exp
Pages: 240
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0132359820
Dewey Decimal Number: 337.51
EAN: 9780132359825
ASIN: 0132359820
Publication Date: May 4, 2008
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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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 Navarro's War September 1, 2008
F. H. Krenz (Bridgenorth, Ontario)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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? August 30, 2008
Xujun Eberlein (Boston, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"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 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 August 23, 2008
Wayne G. Butcher (Australia)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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
Surprisingly scholarly and a must for anyone concerned about America's greatest potential military threat. August 10, 2008
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
China has over one billion people and the largest military in the world. Now in a newly revised and significantly expanded edition, "The Coming China Wars" is a discussion of what many politically savvy Americans fear, something that may or may not be inevitable - war with China. Explaining the root problems of growing conflicts between the United States and China, yet with the optimistic message that there is still hope for civility and friendship between the two, "The Coming China Wars" is surprisingly scholarly and a must for anyone concerned about America's greatest potential military threat.
 lack of factual evidence and in-depth analysis August 6, 2008
M. Chen
In trying to find out whether this book is worth purchasing, I read the excerpt provided here. I did not have to finish it to find that there are already two major faults in this work: 1) lack of factual evidence (such as statistics); and 2) lack of well-rounded analysis on the causes of the social conditions in China as mentioned by the author.
For example, the first chapter details the depression of the modern Chinese labor force. While it gives a graphic description of how the employers take advantage of the workers, the author does NOT for a second consider that most of the employers are foreigners (from other place of Asia such as Taiwan, Japan, and Europe and the US). So, who is responsible for the depression? Globally everyone who wants to profit from cheap labor! The author, however, fails to mention this, happily misleading the readers to think that the Chinese are mistreating its own people; this is NOT the whole picture. And certainly, quotes cut out from random articles here and there to create a mosaic of sob stories is just overly sentimental to be objectively analytical.
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