Author: Peter Navarro File Type: pdf For years, China has served as the factory floor for global production, driving down prices for consumers worldwide. But, unfortunately, Chinas rapid and chaotic industrialization has put it on a collision course with the rest of the world. The Coming China Wars was the first book to systematically cover all those conflicts political, economic, and environmental. Now, in this new edition, Dr. Peter Navarro has thoroughly updated the entire book. Youll find new chapters on the danger posed by Chinas flood of defective products and contaminated food Chinas dramatic military expansion and the rising threat of a hot war Chinas space program and its profound strategic implications Chinas growing suppression of human rights and free speech and much more. The coming China Wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and advanced technologies to strategic resources...and eventually to our most basic of all needs bread, water, and air. Unless all nations immediately address these impending conflicts, the results may be catastrophic. Like the First Edition, this book demands that we think much more deeply about how to stop the coming China Wars, laying out hard choices that must be made sooner rather than later. This new edition offers even more policy recommendations, including original contributions from several of the worlds most important China experts. **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 dont 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, Chinas 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 Chinas 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. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Review Peter Navarro is that rarest and most valuable of China-watchers -- an economist who sees the big strategic picture as well. * The Coming China Wars * contains the kind of realistic analysis needed by all Americans today, from voters to presidential candidates. - Alan Tonelson