#43: Unrestricted Warfare; Coming China Wars. China Fantasy. A War Like No Other. 07.8.11=6 6pm - 10.4=4 8pm.

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"Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America", by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui ; Pan American Pub. Co. (August 22, 2002)
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"America's Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan", by Ted Galen Carpenter : Palgrave Macmillan (January 5, 2006):
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"" “In America’s Coming War with China, Ted Galen Carpenter explains with unique insight how the misjudgments and false assumptions of Washington’s policy of strategic ambiguity on China and Taiwan are putting the United States on a collision course with China. This book is a must read.”
--Clyde Prestowitz, author of Three Billion New Capitalists


“America’s Coming War with China is a thoughtful, even-toned, deeply disturbing book. Ted Galen Carpenter has long been one of the wisest, most far-seeing foreign policy voices in Washington. His quiet, careful documentation of an on-rushing, potentially catastrophic confrontation between the United States and China over Taiwan, which can still be avoided, but may not be, is far more troubling than the hysterical claims from other sources that brand China as an inevitable, mortal enemy of the United States. This is clearly one of the most important books on U.S. foreign policy in years. It is essential reading for everyone who cares about the peace of the world.”
--Martin Sieff, National Security Correspondent, United Press International ""

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"The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won", by Peter Navarro: FT Press; 1 edition (October 19, 2006):

"" Editorial Reviews

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 don't 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, China's 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 China's 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.
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“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, April 2007

“…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.” --Benjamin A Shobert, Asia Times

"In this comprehensive examination of China's mushrooming economy, Navarro masterfully illuminates the dark sides of China's great leaps into privatization and globalization." --Cecil Johnson, 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.” --Benjamin A Shobert, Asia Times ""
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"The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression", by James Mann ; Viking Adult (February 15, 2007)

"" Editorial Reviews

From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com
Reviewed by Margaret MacMillan ""
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"" As this angry, lively little book makes clear, Mann has had enough! His main target is all those American policymakers -- aided and abetted by big business, the media and Beltway think tanks -- who have sold a bill of goods to the American people. Since Nixon first made his historic trip to Beijing in 1972, Mann charges, American elites have dispensed soothing and dangerously misleading nostrums to the public. Yes, China under the control of the Communist Party is somewhat authoritarian -- even, if you want to be rude, a totalitarian state. But that state of affairs, Americans are reassured, can't last forever. At some point, perhaps quite soon, China's dramatic economic development will inevitably lead to democracy as its growing middle class demands more rights and freedoms. Meanwhile, and confusingly, comes a set of warnings that China is more fragile than it seems and that if we don't all handle it with kid gloves, it could collapse into chaos and civil war, as it has done so often before. ""
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"" Book Description

From The New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans, an exploration of Chinese authoritarianism and Western capitalism ""
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... "" Mann poses a third scenario and asks, What will happen if Chinese capitalism continues to evolve and expand but the government fails to liberalize? What then and why should this third scenario matter to Americans? Mann explores this alternate possibility and—in this must-read book for anyone interested in international politics—offers a startling vision of our future with China that will have a profound impact for decades to come. ""

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"A War Like No Other: The Truth About China's Challenge to America", by Richard C. Bush, Michael E. O'Hanlon ; Wiley (March 30, 2007)


"" Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
In dense, academic prose, Brookings Institution scholars O'Hanlon and Bush argue that a war with China is neither as implausible as it might appear nor as inevitable as history would suggest. The likely cause for military intervention, they propose, would come not from China's rise as a regional and global power, nor from the growing threat it poses to the U.S.'s economic strength, nor from its curtailment of human rights-all of which could be addressed diplomatically-but rather the political situation of Taiwan, the semi-autonomous island 100 miles from the mainland, whose independence could upset delicate U.S-China relations. The authors present a number of possible conflict scenarios and discuss the sorts of legislative and diplomatic action that could get the U.S. into them, but wisely avoid bombast by noting regularly that war with China remains unlikely. The only passages of general interest here are those on Taiwanese history; the legislative and diplomatic prescriptions that constitute the majority of the book, while comprehensive and reasonable, will fail to excite even interested lay readers. Professors and lawmakers would do well to read this volume, if only for the reminder that, in this time of seemingly insuperable international dilemma, some problems can still be solved with a bit of level-headed diplomatic maneuvering.
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Review

"A supremely thoughtful, sober assessment of what is one of the most dangerous fault lines in the world today. The authors carefully avoid unduly alarmist assessments, yet convincingly demonstrate that miscalculation and misinformation could produce the unthinkable."
—James B. Steinberg, Dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton ""

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