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As it flexes its diplomatic and military muscles, China is becoming an increasingly powerful player on the world stage. Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro's flawed but important The Coming Conflict with China analyzed the implications for American policymakers. Edward Timperlake and William Triplett also believe that a confrontation between China and the U.S. is inevitable. In Red Dragon Rising, they describe a series of worst-case scenarios, such as a bloody invasion of Taiwan. If the situation is as dangerous as they indicate, however, they have done America a disservice by the extreme political spin they give their arguments. They attempt to associate the Clinton administration with every evil of which China's unsavory Communist regime is capable. Photographs of Clinton and Gore talking with Chinese leaders are illustrated to prove their complicity with butchers--but what should we make of photos of Bush doing the same? A reference to Chinese New Year as Tet, a purely Vietnamese term, suggests the parameters of the authors' experience. In a disclaimer on the cover, they state that their details of the Tiananmen massacre are necessary to show the true nature of Communist China's government, but their lurid descriptions are gratuitous. This work is not balanced analysis or serious contemporary history but party-political poison. Red Dragon Rising is a cheap book, full of cheap shots (it is simplistic to hold China, for all its faults, responsible for "two million Cambodians killed"), whose political bias cheapens its important subject. Right-wing conspiracy theorists will love this book; others will not. --John Stevenson
Book Description
This book illuminates the Chinese People's Liberation Army's activities and the threat they pose to America.
Customer Reviews:
Insight to China's plans for their perceived enemies........2007-05-08
This book spells out the known weapons China has, as well as what destruction they can reap. It is frightening in what China has armed know enemies of the US with. It does indeed credit Russia with selling the weapons to China. It points out how naive people are in this nation. Any one who reads this book should be ready to fight to keep his weapon least he become like the people in Tiananmen Square.
You fail Ed.......2007-04-28
Let's see, nearly a decade after the first edition of this book was published and narry a missile fired between the U.S. and China. In fact, the two nations have only become more cooperative with each other, i.e. Korea, currency revaluation, the war on terror, etc.
Can we just ignore these "so-and-so is a 'coming threat' to America" paranoid delusions? I think there are more important, and more real enemies to America that would need to be dealt with, rather than muddy the waters with paranoid speculations.
There are better books than this one.......2005-06-13
I bought this book to see China's potential growth in every respect. I am very disappointed after reading the book. At the introduction of the book author gives his solution as "Double the military and double again if needed be. Build more B-2 ,F-22 , F/A 18 airplanes. Mobilize the industry for munitions production. Go forward for ballistic missile systems". Also he curses Clinton Administration countless times for its foreign policy and promotes Bush presidency. He claims that Clinton got campaign money from China and favors them. What about Bush-Saudý-9/11 connections? Not even a word.
He also trying to show Chinese Regime brutality like selling weapons to both sides at Iraq-Iran war (no word from Senior Bush, and Oliver North), Selling guns to 3rd world countries and make money (No Saudi-US gun Trade mentioned), no respect to UN decisions (What Mr. Bush did in Iraq?) Selling missile systems to Pakistan while US forcing sanctions (Mr. Bush lifted the sanctions after 9/11 to non-Democratic Pakistan regime).
He insists that's why US must declare war against China, not strategic partnership like Clinton did. Strategic partnership gives China open ýtself to the world and influenced by democratic system. On the long run, Chinese people will select democracy and bury the old communist regime like East Europe did.
There are many right points in the book like Týananmen Square Massacre, but the these accurate points fades due to being Clinton hater.
If you want to learn something about China, this one sided, extreme rightist book is not the one. Do not buy it and do not read it.
A Bill of Indictment against the Clinton Administration.......2005-02-21
And you believed in the myth of China's peaceful rise? You do so at your peril. China has a long history of aggression and threatening its neighbors. Today, it has a greater capacity to wreck havok than it has at any point in its Communist history, and we to a large extent have Clinton to blame for it. There is plenty of evidence provided from reputable sources regarding the manner in which the Chinese government infultrated the Clinton Administration, as well as the ever present threat that China presents not only to the United States, but also its Asian neighbors like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and most of all Taiwan.
Works like this are ignored at our peril. For a long time, people have seemed to believe the in best possibility for Communist China, always to have been shown for ignorance in the end. Those who adulate over China today run the same risk. Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, there are too many people who have a lack of knowledge of China's history to know the true nature of the threat. This book will go some of the way to alleviating that ignorance.
The Red Chinese Threat to U.S. National Security.......2004-08-31
In the news, I recently heard a People's Liberation Army strategist, Liu Jiangjia, stated brusquely: "War is not far from us now. A new arms race has started to develop." First published in 1999, during the twilight of the Clinton Administration, this Regnery classic has made light of Clinton overtures to Beijing and the startling developments in Red China's military industrial complex. Red China is well on its way to becoming a hegemonic military superpower as her economic liberalization and foreign trade continues to buoy her GDP. Moreover, her military insiders often speak of the U.S. as an "enemy" and a "threat." Red China is embracing what the CIA calls a social market economy. Essentially, kleptocrat communist party bosses are taking the helm in controlling the vibrant military-industrial consortiums with foreign investors. China's economy is developing rapidly. Western expertise and investment from aerospace American companies like Boeing, for example, may prove to be a huge national security risk. (Frankly, American companies in the absence of firm U.S. government controls have proven willingness to compromise American security for profit.) The Clinton Administration presided over an immense relaxation of technology transfer controls and has turned a blind eye to Chinese espionage. Ethnic Chinese have seized economic and/or political control over nations throughout the Pacific Rim. However, one should realize many ethnic Chinese don't have sympathy with the Red regime in Beijing like the Taiwanese. The Chinese have been actively expanding their reach throughout Pacific Rim and are even getting strong Latin American connections. For example, a PLA-affiliated company has seized control of the Panama Canal and has built a transshipment facility in the Bahamas. China could feasibly use Panama as strategic chokepoint cutting off U.S. trade. Obviously this economic jugular vein can be a useful blackmail chip in power politics games. Books like _Red Cocaine_ have demonstrated a considerable Sino-Soviet involvement in the drug trade and no doubt Chinese shipping industry carries opium bound for the Americas. Red China's connection with radical Islamist countries in arms dealings is alarming. If China ever wanted to subject the giant Gulliver to a campaign of terrorism, it's conceivable she could do so covertly by arming and assisting efforts of radical Islamist terrorists. China has demonstrated a willingness to work with radical Islamist regimes and Muslim nations to enhance their military and nuclear programs. Some of the more dangerous technology transfers of U.S. knowledge to Red China may be through intermediaries like Israel. The authors have pointed out that Israel - America's professed ally - is selling weapons and sensitive technology to Red China. They have assisted in the development of a Chinese fighter based on the F-16. What is more alarming is that Israel is usually the first to get America's latest and greatest hi-tech weaponry once it goes into production. The strategic technological lead that the new JSF and F-22 weapons programs gives the U.S. could be egregiously compromised if Israel as a participant leaks sensitive technology to Red China for profit. As an addendum to this book's findings, I would add careful news analysis reveals that the Bush Administration frankly has waffled on Taiwan and has made more concessions to China and even hinted at support for unification with the mainland. This is something that the defend the GOP come hell or high water crowd simply ignores. Moreover, he has likely failed to sufficiently address the economic and security threats China poses. Obviously, the administration has failed to rein in on the openness with China and the loosening of technology transfer controls that his predecessor Clinton initiated. Timperlake and Triplett are to be commended for their research in profiling the national security threat posed by Red China. Though, I think more substantive in-depth research could have been done. (I give it a 3.5/5.0 rating.)
Book Description
Bill Gertz has now written the definitive book on China's threat to the United States. Highlights of this book include espionage, military escalation, economic warfare, and diplomatic treachery, it also sheds new light on the next Evil Empire and suggests where China will strike next.
Customer Reviews:
A must read for insight on China's global economic presence.......2007-09-18
The food we eat. The tires we ride on. The toys our children play with. And much more. How did China get to be so powerful of an influence on global economics? "The China Threat" takes you through the critical political processes and decisions of several administrations that brought America as well as other countries to such dependency.
how can you not be supicious.......2007-03-20
just like developers buy up surrounding land to put the squeeze on those they want out of the way, China has virtually surrounded us, sucked our manufacturing and foundries away. With a flick of the switch they can put a serious hurt on the US, and then see the gas prices soar. Certain administrations have allowed CHina to now control our economy. If you dont think so you are in serious denial. Even Dole shifted there pineapple growing to China.
Truly TRULY Horrendous.......2007-02-10
This is probably one of the most horrendous books I have read in a long time. It's SO obvious that most of the opinions here are totally biased, up to the point of right wing, McCarthy paranoia. The real sad thing is some ignorant president is elected who might indeed follow the advice of such trash that will lead to an unnecessary confrontation with China.
The most terrifying thing about such book is that any unnecessary trade confrontation with China will cause a severe global recession, even depression that will severely hurt United States; the repeat of the Great Depression can even lead to a World War. It's totally obvious that Gertz is TOTALLY ignorant on this potentially grave matter.
It's true that China is not exactly free and it still need to eventually change to democracy to succeed longterm. Some great economists (pragmatists, unlike the extreme paranoid author of "The China Threat") have stated that China need to change to survive long term. However these economists also said that unnecessary confrontation with China will cause it to be less freedom because of economic instability.
Please DON'T read this piece of trash. Read books like 'China: A Balance Sheet", William Overholt's "Rise of China", and Will Hutton's "The Writing On The Wall." These unbiased books are written by economists/sociologists who are very well respected throughout the world.
Missing a lot.......2007-01-17
This book just left me empty. Never really explained the facts and seemed to be based on too many opinions and biases. How much can a author use "undisclosed sources" to explain their subject matter? I'm sure there are more books on this subject worth buying but I wasn't so lucky. I usually keep my books but this one went to the closest pale I could find.
Biased.......2006-05-18
I checked out this book from the library for a history project, but I found the information and analysis in this book too biased for use on a research paper. This book is an attack on the Clinton administration and communism, not a history book. The book fails to incorporate the current domestic and global conditions in China, and rely too heavily on common beliefs of the "evils" of the communist theory. Of course, history has proven that communism is bad, but he fails to understand, there is a reason why the government in China is still in place today. The author fails to understand the thinking, history, and cultures of the Chinese. In his suggestions of how the United States should act against China, the author makes a clear statement that the ends justify the means, and indirectly states that it's okay for the United States to be immoral to eliminate any competition. In a world where people constantly criticizes our arrogance and ignorance, his suggestions confirms the criticisms about how we believe we are the best, and everyone should follow our example without a true understanding of the situation. Ironically, we are the country that emphasizes diversity, but we are also the country who forces others to be just like us even though our model might not fit for their country.
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It damns the dam with precise and powerful arguments........1999-08-29
This is a collection of essays which document the many reasons the Three Gorges Dam should not be built, the lose of arable land, the dislocation of millions of people, the loss of 5,000 years of art and architecture, etc. Author Dai Qing, an outspoken opponent of the dam since the beginning, is to be highy commended for speaking out while others cower in silence. To put it in Western terms, it is David taking on Goliath, times 10.
There are a lot of detailed figures and facts in some of the essays. They're easily skimmed. But read this book if the subject matters to you and particularly if you're planning to take a cruise through the Three Gorges or have already taken it. While on the cruise, one is told only of the glory and power of the dam, which is to say, given the party line, but one should know the lie behind the line and the potential tragedy that awaits, the tragedy of the River Dragon coming again.
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Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a brutal, anachronistic and authoritarian regime, a threat to geo-stability and to the economies of the industrial world. So which China is the real China? Randall Peerenboom addresses this question by exploring China's economy, political and legal system, and most controversially, its record on civil, political and personal rights in the context of the developing world. Avoiding polemic and relying on empirical evidence, he compares China's performance not with first world countries such as the US and UK but with other middle income countries and highlights the often hypocritical stance of an international community which demands standards from others that it does not match at home. He also critically evaluates the benefits of globalisation and democratisation and the normative values of the West set against Beijing's determination to retain its cultural and political integrity. This book seeks to bridge the gap in understanding about China and to create a firmer foundation for mutual trust, while recognising that there are inevitable risks in a shift in global power of this magnitude that will require hard headed pragmatism at times where interests collide.
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Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In China Shifts Gears, Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry--including urban air pollution caused by tailpipe emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, and high dependence on oil imports--while spurring economic development. This transformation will only take place if the Chinese government plays a leadership role in building domestic technological capacity and pushing foreign automakers to transfer cleaner and more energy-efficient technologies to China. If every new car sold in China had the cleanest and most energy-efficient of the automotive technologies already available, urban air pollution could be minimized, emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases would be lower than projected, and the Chinese auto industry would continue to flourish and contribute to China's steady economic development. But so far, Gallagher finds, the opportunity to shift gears has been missed.
Gallagher looks in detail at three U.S.-Chinese joint ventures: Beijing Jeep, Shanghai GM, and Chang'An Ford. These case studies are based on original research, including interviews with 90 government officials, industry representatives, and experts in both countries. Drawing from the case studies, Gallagher explores the larger issues of the environmental and economic effects of technology transfer in the automobile industry and the policy implications of "leapfrogging" to more advanced technology.
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The Chinese market and Chinese companies are of increasing importance for the global chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The book starts with the characterization of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in China. One central aspect is the political and economic situation in China with its strategic and operational implications for Western chemical and pharmaceutical companies. A major part of the book comprises case studies describing how Western companies like BASF, Bayer, Bicoll, Ciba, Degussa, DSM and Novartis are managing the market entry and investments for further growth in China. The book also analyzes the threat to Western companies in their home markets from Chinese competitors.
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The People's Republic of China has emerged as a significant regional superpower. At best, China will be an economic challenge to the United States; at worst, the PRC will be a very real national security threat. Dillon persuasively argues that a Cold War mentality cannot work against China. The U.S. must instead end its appeasement of China and craft an ambitious new geostrategic plan.
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In a book that is as certain to be as controversial as it is meticulously researched, a former special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that the U.S. could be headed toward a nuclear face-off with communist China within four years. And it definitively reveals how China is steadily pursuing a stealthy, systematic strategy to attain geopolitical and economic dominance first in Asia and Eurasia, then possibly globally, within the next twenty. Using recently declassified documents, statements by Russian and Chinese leaders largely overlooked in the Western media, and groundbreaking analysis and investigative work, Menges explains China's plan thoroughly, exposing:
- China's methods of economic control.
- China's secret alliance with Russia and other anti-America nations, including North Korea.
- China's growing military and nuclear power-over 90 ICBMs, many of them aimed at U.S. cities.
- How China and Russia have been responsible for weaponizing terrorists bent on harming the U.S.
- Damage caused by China's trade tactics (since 1990, we've lost 8 million jobs thanks to China trade surpluses).
Customer Reviews:
Terribly Biased.......2005-12-06
I'm a leading Sinologist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and I have read few books as bellicose and biased as this one in my whole career as scholar. His assumptions, theories and conclusions are flawed. I don't believe this guy has ever been to the Middle Kingdom. He didn't even seem to have talked to serious scholars when writing the book - there is only abstract intel background. I dare to say that this book is a serious menace to American and Chinese Civilizations since it may influence American policymakers (I'm so glad I live in Brazil). This book is NOT SERIOUS; IRRESPONSIBLE; and DANGEROUS.
Very well written, researched, and NON-BIASED book.......2005-11-16
If one thinks that this is just another example of unreasonable paranoia about China--THINK AGAIN. This is written by the same gentleman who was very instrumental in successfully bringing down the Berlin Wall of the Cold War and knows how to deal with foreign affairs. One can clearly see that when reading this book, Dr. Menges is not a "China Basher" in any sense, but lays out a practical structure on how both sides can prevent a conflict with one another. Also, Dr. Menges presents the information in a non-biased manner in pointing out flaws that both Bush and Clinton have done to make the China Threat so grave. Go ahead and purchase the book. You will be pleasantly surprised at how researched it is.
The China Threat Is Real-This Book Proves It.......2005-09-14
Here is a voluminous, well researched, and timely analysis of China's impending power grab in Asia. More books are sure to come, but so far none have been warmly received by the New York Eastern publishing establishment.
That China bashing is not a popular subject on Wall Street is demonstrated by the fact that even if you are an ex-assistant to the President for National Security, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a former National Intelligence officer at the CIA, an advisor to Congress and a senior professor of International Relations at George Washington University, as Professor Menges was, your book will end up being published posthumously by an obscure printing house in Tennessee on cheap paper.
But whatever the case may be, Professor Menges' book is an analytical work, not a China bashing book. Even so, the facts he has accumulated are (or should be) alarming to the Western World. Simply put: China has become powerful enough both economically and militarily to challenge the US influence in Asia, in fact, to kick the US right out of Asia if she chooses to (and as China has already promised to do).
The ignition switch for the Chinese power grab is Taiwan, a heated and escalating situation the Western media has done little or nothing to publicize. To put it mildly, China could invade Taiwan at any time, but might hold out until shortly before or after the Olympic games of 2008 (which will take place in China). A US reaction could provoke a Sino-American war in Asia. But in spite of this, it is abundantly clear that China's ambition goes beyond Taiwan and is a regional ambition to replace the United States as the dominating power in Asia.
Menges outlines a steady Chinese operation to undermine the US both politically and economically and, if necessary, militarily. Disturbingly enough, the US has shown little interest in confronting the situation.
The information Menges includes in his book proving China's operational designs on Asia are as convincing as they are voluminous, too voluminous in fact to list completely here. But I will mention the most important ones:
-China has claimed Taiwan, the Paracels, the Spratleys, the Japanese Senkau Islands and South China sea as Chinese
-China is buying the ultimate in modern weaponry en masse from Russia
-China has formalized an official military alliance with Russia against America
-China has built a veritable forest of missile launchers astride Taiwan
-China has fired multiple ballistic missiles over and near Taiwan
-China has threatened US carriers to keep out of the Taiwan Strait (and our carriers have obeyed)
-China has threatened to take out all the US bases in Asia, invade South Korea and initiate strikes against the continental US should America intervene in Taiwan
-China has stolen America's most advanced nuclear secrets (we let the only Chinese spy we caught-Wen Ho Lee-go free)
-China is using its clout to turn the nations of the Third World against America
(no joke, China prohibited three central American nations from receiving the President of Taiwan at the last minute...and they obeyed)
-China now operates the Panama Canal
-China is building the world's largest container port in the Bahamas
-China & Russia operate an electronic spy base in Cuba
-China has jammed US propaganda transmissions to the Third World
If one looks at what we have to stand up to China --- half the military forces we had in 1992 / our presence in the Philippines reduced to zero / reduced forces in Korea (which we are now withdrawing south of Seoul) / a thin alliance with Taiwan which neither promises nor denies assistance and does not recognize Taiwan / 7 trillion dollars of debt / a weak economy / most of our heavy industry outsourced / low morale in the Army after two+ years of Iraq / a total split and alienation of NATO / general resistance to the draft --- one can see there won't be very much the US would do should China decide to invade Taiwan. It would not be surprising to see the US just sit back and watch.
But what the world fails to see, according to Menges, is that to the Chinese this would be further confirmation of American decline in Asia marked by the expulsion of Chiang Kai Shek, the expulsion of US forces from North Korea, the withdrawal of US forces from South Vietnam, the closure of US bases in the Philippines and the reduction of US forces in South Korea. What the world fails to see, according to the author, is that Taiwan would be only the first step in a wider Chinese expansion.
Is the US about to suffer a royal defeat in Asia?
Whatever happens, we must remember this: we were abundantly warned of what was coming.
For a complete perspective on China...........2005-06-09
read "The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" at www.english.epochtimes.com. The Nine Commentaries is a series of articles which explores the history of the CCP. Since its publication in November 2004, over 2 million people have resigned from Party. See for yourself the truth behind the CCP.
Sun Tzu.......2005-06-07
Sun Tzu would have loved the current (and, for that matter, past several decades') strategy of the PRC and Russia. For the PRC, a de facto confederation with Russia constitutes a new incarnation of the Yuan Dynasty, but this time around, a dynasty with Han elites as its Eastern node. For Russia, this time around, they are an equal, not a vassal state, to a Far Eastern great power.
It is an interesting excercise to start with an assumption that the much lauded late 50s through early 70s "Sino Soviet Split" was a massive smoke screen and not bona fide. Assume this, and revisit each major event with any dependence on or relationship to the "split" accordingly. Such events are many and continue to the present day. Of particular note, in this regard, are geopolitics in South East Asia. If the Sino-Soviet Split was a ruse, then quite literally, everything you may have learned about Southeast Asian geopolitics since the 1950s is wrong!
Moving forward, consider the ramification of the world's largest combined military troop strength combined with the world's largest arsenal, when Russian and Chinese forces are coordinated or combined. The mother of all Axes .....
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Even though China has created an administrative structure and regulatory programs to curb pollution, environmental quality has continued to deteriorate. Are polluters following the rules? And what factors affect the way regulators and polluters alike have responded to China's environmental controls? This thoroughly documented study examines these central questions by analyzing compliance with environmental programs involving wastewater discharge standards, fees, and permits.
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Through a beautiful and compelling narrative, Schoppa traces the lives and history at Xiang Lake, a reservoir from its creation in 1112 to the present.
Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life in southeast China. It reveals the workings of Chinese society in times of environmental and military crises, how the Chinese reacted to changes, threats, and opportunities, and how they dealt with one another and the world of nature and the environment.
Until the 18th century, Xiang Lake, in the province of Zheijiang, was the stage for morality battles between loyalty and betrayal, chastity and impurity, civic virtue and private greed. After the 18th century, concerns about ecology, public rights, and technology emerged as elements in the struggle, and in the 20th century, the fate of the lake became linked to national political developments and then to technological and ecological realities. Song Full of Tears shows how Chinese views of life, society, and nature both changed and remained constant through the centuries. The paperback will include a new epilogue by the author.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent work on the Zhejiang region.......2006-12-19
I read Dr. Schoppa's 1989 release (Xiang Lake) for his course in Chinese history in my undergraduate years at Valparaiso. This book is excellent. Not only is it engaging, but accurately reflects nine centuries of life around a lake in the Zhejiang region of China. Schoppa's writing is engaging and his subject matter is well researched.
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