>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Review
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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.
