This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

“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, environmental, political, and beyond. This new edition adds must-read policy recommendations and positive solutions–an alternative path to safely manage China’s growth and avoid global catastrophe.

•Killer toys, fake prescription drugs, stolen patents

The growing dangers of China’s “weapons of mass production”

•China’s 21st century imperialism and tomorrow’s “blood for oil” flashpoints

The coming U.S./China showdown over oil and natural resources

•America’s new and dangerous central banker

How China’s gigantic trade surpluses threaten to destroy U.S. sovereignty

•Realistic solutions

What can and must be done–by consumers, voters, government, and business

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 55 Ratings

The Only Book for Which I Ever Wanted to Demand a Refund - 2008-11-12
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I picked up this book while passing through LAX. While in flight, I was surprised and quite frankly, annoyed that the book-- supposedly written by a professor at UC Irvine's School of Management-- had no bibliography; no references; was shoddy in terms of quality; resorts to polemical diatribe in arguing that China is a problem.

The sad thing is, there are legitimate reasons for which we rightly ought to be concerned about not so much the rise of China and other countries, but the demise of the US industrial might. Just the other day, Ford and GM's stock tanked, yet again, and the Fed is pumping money into the US auto industry now to prop up our ailing-- failing-- economy.

It has been a long time coming that our misguided policies over the past sixty-years (since the death, essentially of FDR) have finally led to the bankrupting of our economy. With the Fed now printing money left and right, it is not so much the Chinese we need fear, but those "enemies within" (enemies domestic) such as the author of this book whom we need to guard against. For people such as they go on perpetuating the myth that we have done nothing to bring these disasters upon ourselves, while insisting, instead, that it is everyone else's fault.

For the most part, the book itself should be dismissed, but the general premise on which it is written-- is this rising competitor, China, a threat to the US? In the face of our declining economy and moral authority we need to learn to ask the right questions of what actually has led to the decline of US power in the global arena. That will in turn lead to the right answers and help us gain insight as to why there have been all these "missteps" over the years to counter-- feebly at times and fearmongeringly in other instances-- the deleterious effects of our own policy fiascos.


Indeed, if ever there was a clear and present danger, it surely would be a book such as this. For lousy scholarship is the bane to the existence and continuation of our Republic as it obfuscates the truth and keeps us from critical self-examination. When we pay homage to such fears as may be stirred up by this kind of jingoistic pseudo-scholarship, it tends to lead to blind obedience and amounts to no less than an intellectual cop-out and in this case, industrial suicide of the assisted kind. For a people too lazy to think for themselves will always blink in the face of fear and be led down the primrose path by yet another Pied Piper, another Hitler rising up from our midst.

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote:

Obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men


We know better and are better. The battle fronts here in our midst-- poverty of body, soul and mind; paucity of well-thought through policies and sound practices; practically non-existent leadership at virtually all levels; and failure on the part of both politician and body politic alike to preserve, protect and promote the Constitution and our most sacred values and ideals... the list goes on.

The sooner we learn to exorcise trash, PR and propaganda from our midst, the better prepared will we be to face the challenges that await us, as that will lead to the long-suppressed exercise of our freedoms and intellect, which in turn will usher in a new era of awesome creativity, the onrush of new solutions to age-old systemic problems. The result will be no less than a cultural renascence in which the arts, not pop culture, will flourish and free us from the bondage of our fears, ignorance and prejudices. It will be the rising tide that lifts all boats and spirits, an up swell that is the expression of all our pent-up, welled-up aspirations and frustrations as a democratic republic eager to live up to her noble character. We must first confront our ghosts, goblins and skeletons before going on a witch hunt or go looking for a bogeyman. Our enemies at all times have been both foreign and domestic; it is high time we recognized which is the worser, else we will be swallowed up, not by the Chinese, but by our own demons.

One sided but accurate - 2008-12-10
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I read Peter's book in Hong Kong--because there is of course no way something even mildly critical of the Gestapo (oops--the CCP) would be available on the Mainland. The book makes no pretenses about being balanced, but as Mr. Navarro states, the information is accurate. I actually would like to suggest that the author add a chapter on how the promotion of fanatical, ultra nationalism by the fascist government is currently in overdrive. You wouldn't believe some of gingoistic extremism you see splashed on TV--textbook Goebbles. One South African lady I knew here had to pull her daughter out of school because she was goose-stepping around the house like an SS officer, saluting everyone she saw with some kind of bizzare 'Zieg Heil' gesture while singing patriotic marching songs. Don't misunderstand, I love China, the Chinese people, Chinese culture and civilization. Mao and those who claim to be continuing his legacy are certainly ruining it.

Typical unsubstantiated information from Navarro - 2009-05-19
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If you think this book is China-bashing then you should read some of Navarro's unsubstantiated rantings in the Asia Times Online. A load of hot tosh

1001 Reasons why China should terrify you! - 2009-05-18
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This book is only for those who prefer fear mongering to nuance.

It is nothing more than a long list of reasons to be scared--none of them fully developed.

A very easy book to write and no doubt intended to sell well. Over-simplification and scare tactics are always popular.

This man is profiting at the expense of improving the climate for good relations.

The book is not only seriously uninformed--it is downright dangerous.

a book done by an oldman who wants to make some money and become famous - 2009-04-21
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the author simply wants to use China as a selling-point to make himself and the book more famous. In fact, what he says in the book are totally fairy-tales and exaggerations. I can tell that he is very superficial about issues in China and is simply pleasing some readers with an old coldwar theory and satisfing their sick appetite which is to imagine a war between USA and China. If the author of this book works in white house then the world would be probably doomed by his stupidity and ignorance. George W. Bush is even better than him.
This is the worst book about modern China I have ever read so far among most of other books about China on Amazon.
I would rather read this book as a funny fiction.

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