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Coming China Wars, The: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition Revised & enlarged Edition


For years, China has served as the "factory floor" for global production, driving down prices for consumers worldwide. But, unfortunately, China's 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. You'll find new chapters on the danger posed by China's flood of defective products and contaminated food; China's dramatic military expansion and the rising threat of a "hot war"; China's space program and its profound strategic implications; China's 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 world's most important China experts.

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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.

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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 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, Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

“In this comprehensive examination of China's mushrooming economy, Navarro masterfully illuminates the dark sides of China's great leaps into privatization and globalization.”

–Boston Globe

“…serves as an important touchstone for any prudent discussion regarding the implications to China's growth. For those unfamiliar with China's ecological disaster, natural-resource crisis or aging and soon to be inverted demographics, this book is a very good introduction.”

–Asia Times

“In this informative volume, Navarro explores China's impact on the world and the perils it creates. This provocative and potentially controversial book will be of value to a wide audience. Summing up: Highly recommended”

–CHOICE

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, Harvard Business School

“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

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The shocking worldwide best-seller on China's rise to dominance...

Now 100% updated for the latest headlines and their implications...

Extensive new coverage, including

•China's deadly exports...from poisonous drugs to killer toys

Will China “go nuclear” on U.S. financial markets?

•China's provocative military buildup and secret Star Wars program

From Burma to Darfur: how China supports the world's tyrants

•China's growing internal human rights abuses and brutal subjugation of Tibet

Plus many new recommendations and positive solutions

In this Revised and Expanded edition of The Coming China Wars, Peter Navarro has thoroughly updated his bestselling book on the threats now posed by the dramatic rise of China as an economic and military superpower.

Discover how to protect yourself (or your business) from the defective and sometimes lethal products pouring out of China's factories...how China's enormous trade surplus threatens to “nuke” the U.S. economy...how China's accelerating military buildup and secret Star Wars program is sharply tipping the global strategic balance...how China's ”blood for oil” imperialism is devastating Africa and throwing kerosene on the Middle East powder keg...how China's prodigious pollution kills close to a million Chinese a year while riding the jet stream to darken U.S. skies...and, perhaps most terrifying of all, how this nuclear superpower may be spiraling toward internal chaos.

With extensive new coverage, this book analyzes all of today's “China Wars”: economic, military, enviro

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ FT Press; Revised & enlarged edition (April 24, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 219 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0132359820
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0132359825
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.95 x 0.85 x 8.95 inches
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Peter Navarro is one of only three senior White House officials who remained with President Trump from the 2016 presidential campaign to the end of his first term in office. Navarro was director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, served as policy coordinator for the Defense Production Act during the pandemic, and was a principal architect of Trump’s tariff, trade, and “tough on China” policies.

Navarro is a noted China scholar, sought-after public speaker, and award-winning professor emeritus at the University of California-Irvine. His numerous books include the bestselling In Trump Time and The Coming China Wars, and he has delivered keynote speeches to audiences around the world.

Navarro holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, a master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. from Tufts University. He has appeared frequently on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, and CNBC.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2023
First - I picked this book because I know the author knows a lot about what is going on in China. He is an expert and has written several very good books on how China sees itself on the world stage. The book details the many ways China is preparing itself for world domination. It is easy reading -- as the author goes through details showing how China is going about this -- without firing a single shot -- until one day we will wake up and the Chinese flag flies over the US Capitol.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2023
Dr. Navarro provides an excellent walk through challenges we face from China. I think this book was written in 2008 and it is easy to see how much has come to pass since it was written.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2023
I bought several of Peter Navarro books to help with his defense fund. If our DOJ wasn’t so CORRUPT, it wouldn’t be necessary.

But unfortunately the DOJ & FBI are both CORRUPT and Joe Biden is compromised.
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2013
This book is so good that it is in the library of The National Security Space Institute. Read this book and you will become more aware of the continuation of Sun Tzu's Art of War in practice. Just maybe you will be even more wary of Chinese products and their impact on the American economy and society.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2023
Lightly used, as advertised
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2011
I find it amusing that the negative reviews tend to lack the Amazon Verified Purchase tag (indicates the reviewer purchased the book). When you look at those reviews with this tag the ratio of favorable to unfavorable is 5 to 1. It seems that there is an organized negative campaign, that makes me more curious about what is in the book. Check out the excerpts for yourself (as the badge on the book cover image says "click to look inside") they are far more useful than many of the reviews posted here.

As someone who actually owns and has read the book I would say that it reaches its goal, promoting informed discussion of some very important topics. Yes some are familiar topics, poor working conditions for example, but there are many topics that few are familiar with. For example the control of water resources that many neighboring countries downstream depend upon. Of course for the millions dependent on the Mekong river they may be somewhat better informed than those of us living in the west.

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Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2022
The clarity of thought and incisive style make this book fascinating. Rare is the person who has such a brilliant grasp of the triumvirate of economics, politics, and their correlation. Dr. Peter Kent Navarro is a genius!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2022
It’s most powerful reminder of the transmission and harmfulness of real evil c’c’p “ virus “—— the anti-human and anti-God organization of the world.
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