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Death By China: Confronting The Dragon - A Global Call To Action (2011)

by Peter Navarro(Favorite Author)

3.52 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0132180235 (ISBN13: 9780132180238)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Pearson Prentice Hall

review 1: The authors are not afraid to stack one indictment on top of the other to convince their readers that China poses a threat of monumental proportions to all countries—especially to the USA—in virtually every sphere of international interaction whether it be political, commercial, economic, judicial, military, environmental, communicative, health, educative or religious. Indeed, the threat is intranational, to China itself, as well as international, impacting the rest of the world. In well documented detail they describe a burgeoning juggernaut which is totally obsessed with its own power to dominate with little or no regard to ethics, honesty, diplomacy, trustworthiness or justice.Is the picture as terrible as the authors picture it? Is this merely sensationalistic hype... morerbole? Emphatically not! Are we faced with the choice of either succumbing to an expansionistic hegemony, or confronting it head on—even militarily, if necessary—so that we can protect our rights and freedoms? If we take their message to heart it seems that at least we need to stop looking the other way, hoping that things are not as bad as the facts clearly indicate. In the back of the book the authors present numerous steps needed to be taken by the United States and others to constrain and restrain China’s increasingly oppressive world ascendancy. Many of these ideas only serve to highlight how far China’s incursions have come and that believing the proposed remedies could be carried out is nonsensically unrealistic. No doubt the members of the Chinese hierarchy who may gain access to this book are having riotous bellylaughs about the authors’ presumptuous directives which they are sure could never see the light of day. Unfortunately, they may be right.This book drives home how naïve America and most Western powers have been about China’s emergence from a primitive, backward, disorganized peasant society to a modern, sophisticated, ambitious and (it can justifiably be said) uncompromisingly ruthless power. In three decades the Chinese have proven how quickly and effectively a centralized totalitarian power structure can advance world-controlling ambitions. We ignore them at our own peril. The only long term solution--to which, regrettably, the authors do not give credence--is that the Chinese people over time can succeed in planting more and more seeds of democratization. Or, is that only adding one naivety to another?
review 2: 2.5 for this NDA rant (no data, but angry). As a pugnacious provocateur, Navarro pulls no punches and lands some solid hits - but occasionally hits below the belt. I'm no China apologist and find that he articulates quite a few issues important to me, but the book reads like a litany of exaggerated anecdotes. Without rigorous research, these truncated news articles are reframed in inflammatory language and emotionally manipulative. I think the important messages might be drowned out by his volubility. less

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