>
> 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.
>
> Copyright (c) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
> All rights reserved.
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> Book 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
>
>
>
>
> "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
>
>
> About the Author
>
> Peter Navarro is a business professor at the University of
> California-Irvine. He is the author of the path-breaking management
> book, The Well-Timed Strategy, and the bestselling investment book If
> It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks. His unique and internationally
> recognized expertise lies in his "big picture" application of a highly
> sophisticated but easily accessible macroeconomic analysis of the
> business environment and financial markets for investors and corporate
> executives.
>
>
>
> Navarro's articles have appeared in a wide range of publications, from
> Business Week, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Wall Street
> Journal to the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, and
> the Journal of Business. Professor Navarro is a widely sought after and
> gifted public speaker. He has appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV and
> radio, CNN, CNBC, and NPR, as well as on all three major network news shows.
>
> His free weekly investment newsletter is published at www.
peternavarro.com.
>
>
> Excerpt. (c) Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
> Introduction
> News Release, October 25, 2012
> U.S.-China Chill Melts Down World Markets
>
> NEW YORK-Global stock exchanges were devastated this week by the worst
> collapse in history as a wave of panic selling followed the sun from
> Asia through Europe and back to Wall Street. The pandemonium was
> triggered by a Chinese government announcement that it would no longer
> finance the mounting budget and trade deficits of a "profligate United
> States" that "refuses to live within its means" and that "insists on
> scapegoating China for its own internal economic problems." Nor would
> China continue to try to prop up "an increasingly worthless dollar."
>
> As the Chinese began dumping U.S. assets on Wall Street, both stock and
> bond prices plummeted. The panic soon spread to other exchanges around
> the world as gold soared to more than $1,000 an ounce and fear of a
> global depression deepened.
>
> China's actions have been widely interpreted as harsh retaliation for
> U.S. congressional passage of stiff protectionist tariffs on a wide
> range of manufactured goods. With the presidential election less than a
> month away, both houses of Congress up for electoral grabs, and the U.S.
> economy stuck in reverse, Republicans and Democrats alike are pushing
> additional legislation addressing everything from the growing trade in
> Chinese counterfeit goods, illegal drugs, and ballistic missiles to the
> international spillover from China's mounting environmental pollution.
>
> It's been a tough year for Sino-U.S. relations. In January, the U.S.
> ambassador to the United Nations stormed out in protest over "the
> repeated crass commercial use" by China of its U.N. veto to "shield
> terrorist regimes such as Iran from diplomatic sanctions in exchange for
> oil." In March, China's president abruptly cancelled a state visit after
> the U.S. Treasury Department branded China a "currency manipulator."
> During an unusually hot August that raised collateral fears of global
> warming, the U.S. Pacific Fleet engaged in a tense, week-long standoff
> over Taiwan with China's recently acquired, and nuclear
> missile-equipped, blue water navy.
>
> Meanwhile, domestic unrest in China continues to escalate as an
> increasingly restive population seeks greater income equality, more
> worker rights, improved health care, a cleaner environment, a halt to
> widespread government corruption, and an end to massive public works
> projects such as the Three Gorges Dam that have displaced millions of
> people without adequately compensating them. A recent report released by
> the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has warned that should such
> domestic unrest reach a boiling point in China, the result may be
> "sharper military conflicts with the United States, Taiwan, and possibly
> even Japan as Chinese leaders seek to unify the now increasingly
> fractured nation against a 'common enemy.'"
>
> The best of economic times for China are fast becoming the worst of
> times for the rest of us. China's "cowboy capitalism" and amoral foreign
> policies are triggering a whole range of economic, financial,
> environmental, political, and military tsunamis that threaten to engulf
> us-as well as the Chinese people. The ever-growing dangers lay in a
> model of rapid, unsustainable economic growth, coupled with a wanton
> disregard for both human life and intellectual property. The myriad
> dangers from the Coming China Wars are real-and increasingly personal.
> Consider these scenarios based on actual events:
>
> *
>
> Your father almost dies from a massive heart attack because the
> "Lipitor" prescription he filled on the Internet was laced with Chinese
> fakes. Your mother breaks her hip because the phony "Evista" medication
> she took for osteoporosis was nothing more than molded Chinese chalk.
> Your house gets robbed by a drug addict high on methamphetamines made
> from ephedra grass grown on Chinese state-run farms and transported to
> New York via Panama by Triad gangs.
> *
>
> You walk out of a Wal-Mart with a big smile and a large basket
> laden with cheap Chinese goods ranging from a fancy new laser printer
> and plasma TV to shirts, socks, and running shoes. Your smile quickly
> turns to a frown as your eyes begin to sting and lungs burn from the
> Asian "brown cloud" now visible on the horizon. It is 90-proof "Chinese
> chog"-a particularly toxic atmospheric smog that has hitchhiked on the
> jet stream all the way from China's industrial heartland where
> everything in your basket was first manufactured.
> *
>
> Your bank balance drops precipitously as rising interest rates
> drive your adjustable rate monthly mortgage payment off the charts and
> as you shell out more than you ever dreamed to fill your gas tank. Your
> mortgage payments are being held hostage to China's
> currency-manipulation policies. You pay dearly at the pump because of
> the price-shocking effects of China's rapidly rising thirst for oil.
>
> The Coming China Wars is not just a story about how China's emergence as
> the world's "factory floor" is affecting you and your pocketbook. The
> story is far larger than any one of us or any single country. This book
> takes a tough, hard look at the eight major China Wars already well
> underway:
>
> 1. The Not-So-Swashbuckling Piracy Wars
>
> Following a centuries-old tradition of skullduggery in the South China
> Seas, China has become the world's largest pirate nation. China's modern
> buccaneers, with the strong support of their government, are not just
> stealing software and Hollywood movies on DVDs. They are blatantly
> counterfeiting virtually the entire alphabet of goods-from air
> conditioners, automobiles, and brake pads to razors, refrigerators, and
> the world's most recognizable pharmaceuticals such as Lipitor, Norvasc,
> and Viagra.
>
> In the process, these pirates are posing grave health risks to hundreds
> of millions of people. They are also destroying all semblance of global
> intellectual property law protections vitally needed to spur innovation.
>
> 2. The 21st Century Opium Wars
>
> With an unholy triangle of Triad gangsters, international smugglers, and
> corrupt Communist Party officials as cartel kingpins, China has emerged
> as one of the world's biggest dope dealers. Most despicably, China is
> not just the world's "factory floor" for legitimate goods but also for
> the so-called precursor chemicals used to produce all four of the
> world's major hard drugs: cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and Ecstasy.
>
> China has also retained its historical role as a major transit area for
> opium from the Golden Triangle, and it is rapidly emerging as a highly
> efficient production center for Ecstasy and speed. Not coincidentally,
> Chinese criminal syndicates are awash in illicit cash, and China's
> banking system is becoming an important hub for global money laundering.
>
> 3. The Air Pollution and Global Warming Wars
>
> With claim to 16 of the world's 20 dirtiest cities in the World Bank's
> environmental Hall of Shame, China has been dubiously crowned as the
> most polluted nation on Earth. As a result of its rapid
> industrialization and lax environmental controls, China's prodigious
> toxic emissions are now spewing well beyond its environmentally porous
> borders.
>
> Storms regularly rise up from China's Inner Mongolian desert steppes and
> blanket Korea and Japan with tons upon tons of toxics-laden dust.
> Chinese chog regularly hitchhikes along the jet stream, only to descend
> thousands of miles away in big cities such as Los Angeles and Vancouver
> and to despoil visibility in pristine towns such as Aspen. With its
> belching coal plants and rapidly multiplying automobile fleet, China
> will soon eclipse the United States as the single largest contributor to
> global warming.
>
> 4. The "Blood for Oil" Wars
>
> With its economy rocketing, China has emerged as the world's second
> largest petroleum consumer behind only the United States. Astonishingly,
> China now accounts for almost half the growth in global oil demand and
> is the primary catalyst for an oil market hurtling toward $100 a barrel.
>
> To lock down its petroleum supplies-and lock the rest of the world
> out-China has adopted a reprehensible foreign policy based on President
> Hu Jintao's amoral mantra of "just business, no political conditions."
> It has shipped ballistic missiles and transferred nuclear weapons
> technologies to the radical Iranian regime, used its diplomatic veto in
> the United Nations to sanction genocide in the Sudan, and facilitated
> the looting of public treasuries by dictators in oil- and mineral-rich
> African countries from Angola to Zimbabwe.
>
> This unconscionable blood for oil diplomacy has resulted in the
> slaughter of millions, the impoverishment of millions more, and a rapid
> spike in nuclear proliferation in both the Middle East and Asia.
>
> 5. The New Imperialist Wars
>
> In a supreme historical irony, one of imperialism's worst former victims
> has become the 21st century's most relentlessly imperialistic nation.
