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Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action [Hardcover]

Peter W. Navarro , Greg Autry
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Book Description

May 15, 2011

The world's most populous nation and soon-to-be largest economy is rapidly turning into the planet's most efficient assassin. Unscrupulous Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding world markets with lethal products. China's perverse form of capitalism combines illegal mercantilist and protectionist weapons to pick off American industries, job by job. China's emboldened military is racing towards head-on confrontation with the U.S. Meanwhile, America's executives, politicians, and even academics remain silent about the looming threat. Now, best-selling author and noted economist Peter Navarro meticulously exposes every form of "Death by China," drawing on the latest trends and events to show a relationship spiraling out of control.

 

Death by China reveals how thousands of Chinese cyber dissidents are being imprisoned in "Google Gulags"; how Chinese hackers are escalating coordinated cyberattacks on U.S. defense and America's key businesses; how China's undervalued currency is damaging the U.S., Europe, and the global recovery; why American companies are discovering that the risks of operating in China are even worse than they imagined; how China is promoting nuclear proliferation in its pursuit of oil; and how the media distorts the China story--including a "Hall of Shame" of America's worst China apologists.

 

This book doesn't just catalogue China's abuses: It presents a call to action and a survival guide for a critical juncture in America's history--and the world's.

 


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Editorial Reviews

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Navarro and Autry outline a clear and achievable path for America to tame the Dragon's onslaught. This highly entertaining book serves as not only a riotous call to arms, but a roadmap for Americans to re-claim the 21st century as their own. 
- Chriss Street, The Huffington Post

From the Back Cover

“Like a modern-day Paul Revere, this book offers the most urgent of warnings about how China is systematically destroying the American economy under the false banner of ‘free’ trade–and in the process, severely weakening our national defenses.”
Ian Fletcher, Senior Economist, Coalition for a Prosperous America

 

“The authors rightly and squarely point the finger at all of the corporate turncoats and China apologists in America who are helping to make China’s rise anything but peaceful.”

Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow, U.S. Business and Industrial Council, AmericanEconomicAlert.org

 

“A high-powered rifle shot that hits the Beijing bull’s-eye dead-on.”

Dylan Ratigan, host of MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show

 

Death by China is further proof that we are sowing the seeds of our own demise.... This book is shocking and is a must-read for all.”

Paul Midler, author of Poorly Made in China

 

“This clarion call carefully researches and intricately details the clear and present dangers that an anything but ‘peacefully rising’ China poses to the world.”

Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, 46th District (Rep, CA)

 

“This liberty bell of a book should shake American leaders out of their slumber so that they finally–finally–realize that China’s economic policies are bankrupting the United States of America.”

Richard McCormack, Editor and Publisher, Manufacturing & Technology News

 

“I’ve been long concerned about China’s evolving military challenge to America and our allies.... Every Western political and military leader should read this book. Now!”

Jon Gallinetti, Major General, USMC, retired

 

“Be forewarned: Once you start reading, you won’t want to stop.”

Damon DiMarco, author of Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 and co-author of My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary with Baiqiao Tang

 

“A chilling compilation of China’s gathering storm.”

Brian Binnie, Commander USN, retired; test pilot; commercial astronaut and winner of the Ansari X Prize

 

China is now the greatest threat to America.

 

Soon to be the world’s largest economy, China is attacking on every front, with every available weapon—from protectionism and currency manipulation to cyber attacks and espionage. Around the globe, China is also doing whatever it takes to capture crucial resources—even if it means promoting nuclear proliferation by the world’s most dangerous regimes. Inside the United States, Americans are being injured or killed by the Dragon’s dangerous exports: poisoned food, spiked drugs, toxic toys. Meanwhile, huge U.S. corporations have allied with China’s state-owned enterprises to destroy American manufacturing—and, ultimately and ironically, destroy themselves.

 

It’s an incredible and incredibly shameful story, and Death by China tells it all. But understanding the reality of China’s assault on America is only the beginning. Leading economists Peter Navarro and Greg Autry offer a complete plan for surviving the global power shift China has already engineered—and halting the Dragon’s onslaught before it’s too late.

 

It’s not China “bashing” if it’s true

Challenging the China apologists and appeasers

 

The Dragon’s death to America’s manufacturing base
How China’s totalitarianism, mercantilism, and protectionism are winning

 

China ’s “dark visitors” steal the “rope” to hang us with

Beijing’s Red Hacker Brigades vow: “We will bury you, Chinese-style”

 

Death by Colonial Dragon—A rising hegemon’s revenge
Vacuuming up Africa’s resources, plundering Latin America, bullying Asia


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 300 pages
  • Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; 1 edition (May 15, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132180235
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132180238
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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77 of 97 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprised May 9, 2011
By LZ1111
Format:Kindle Edition
I was skeptical of this book to begin with. Like a lot of supporters of free trade, I'd been focused on the benefits of our China relation and I wasn't moved at first when Navarro and Autry trotted out all the usual arguments about human rights abuses - although some of the details are simply horrifying and they do cite their sources. However, by the end of the read I was taken aback by the breadth and depth of what can only be called a "conspiracy." Rather than covering any one subject - trade abuses, militarization, environmental destruction - too deeply the author's make their point forcefully and quickly and then move on. This approach leaves the reader's mind clear enough to see that all of these seemingly disconnected things are LINKED. They are connected pieces in a strategic plan that delivers ever greater wealth and power to small group of men in Beijing and Shanghai at God knows what cost to China, America and the rest of humanity. Death by China delivers a relentless and well deserved beating to China's corrupt leaders.
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50 of 63 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Sensationalism run amok April 26, 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
"Death by China" is an outstanding topic for a book. The authors discuss the growth of China as a political, economic and military power, citing numerous first-hand and third-party sources to argue that China's growth is coming at a great cost to the rest of the world. The citations and data are all carefully footnoted. To put it mildly, there is ample evidence to back the authors' views.

But I share the same problem with this book that so many others have already mentioned. That is, the book is written in such a sensationalist style that I believe it actually does a disservice to the very important message that this "Global Call to Action" is trying to share. You literally can't read a single page without coming across childish language, underhanded digs or gratuitous exclamation points. It feels a bit like an immature eighth-grader, with promising talent, buried himself in this topic for a year and produced this mess. The data and arguments are compelling, you just wish that they could have been conveyed with greater maturity and levelheadedness.

To be fair, I learned a great deal from reading "Death by China" and it's certainly opened my eyes to that country's behavior within the global community. But at my ripe old age, I really had hoped that the authors could have summoned a bit more professionalism while sharing their very compelling arguments.
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56 of 74 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Writing is Too Sensationalist and Manipulative August 21, 2011
Format:Hardcover
First, while I am glad that I read this book and will be following up with the various citations it made to explore more onto the issue, I find fault often with the language. I realize that it is a "call to action," but I don't generally approve of sensationalist or manipulative language. As an example, on page 34 when discussing the corrosive drywall that had a huge negative impact on the homes being rebuilt in wake of the disastrous hurricanes and flooding, the authors state the following, "As a middle-finger salute to this whole shoddy process, the corrosive drywall was then mixed and shipped to the United States without proper oversight or testing." As a middle-finger salute? I find myself questioning if that was necessary or if it actually detracts from the point being made. It certainly turned me off.

Second, there are a lot of issues being raised in this book. At times it was a little confusing to follow what their point was. There are no footnote/endnote numbers in the actual text itself, so as you are reading you have no idea if the statement is made up or supported by something. There is a section on endnotes in the back of the book, but you have to look them up by page and by phrase, which seems to somewhat hinder the ability to look up and research the original source documents. It's all there, but, again, as you are reading you don't have the ability to see if a specific phrase is actually supported by something without constantly flipping back and forth to the back to check every single phrase.

Third, the book did not seem to be equally critical. I'm not saying that everyone should run around criticizing everyone, but I think using critical thinking across the board is an admirable quality when discussing issues. On the Facts And Details website ([...]) there is the following quote: "China's three great rivers--the Yangtze, Pearl and Yellow River--are so filthy that it is dangerous to swim or eat fish caught in them. Parts of the Pearl River in Guangzhou are so thick, dark and soupy it looks like one could walk across it."

On page 176 of Death by China: "America's three great rivers-the Colorado, Mississippi, and Ohio-are so filthy that it is dangerous to swim or eat fish caught in them. Parts of the Ohio River in Pittsburgh are so thick, dark, and soupy it looks like one could walk across it. -FactsandDetails.com

You don't have to be a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club to know this quotation is phony. But once you replace "America" with "China," substitute the "Yangtze, Pearl, and Yellow" rivers of the "Colorado, Mississippi, and Ohio," and swap "Guangzhou" for "Pittsburgh," the environmental picture painted by the website FactsandDetails.com is all too real." - Death by China"
If this is a phony inaccurate quote, why is it quoted as if it is legit? Sure, the authors state that it is phony in the paragraph following where they quoted it, but why was that necessary? Also, there are pollution problems in the United States and I don't believe this section is using critical thinking and analysis equally.

On page 178, the authors write that millions of citizens live at the mouth of the river in Shanghai, but no one dares to bathe or swim in the waters. Several times throughout this section there are references to American bodies of water, but the authors don't mention that it is illegal to swim in the Potomac in Washington D.C. 364 days per year? It is my understanding that this is largely because of the level of feces and other contaminants (although my cursory search doesn't find that as the official reason so please don't treat that as fact and I may very well be wrong - I'd love to know if I am).

Overall, I find that while I appreciate the book and it's compilation of topics and sources, I don't find it a very reliable source of fact. The language can also be confusing in some places and a little more factual explanation could have been provided on some of the topics. It does require a significant amount of time to read in order to digest all the information and check the sources (there is nothing wrong with this). It is an interesting opinion piece and I look forward to looking into the sources it quotes and continuing to research the topic. Despite my criticisms of the nature of the language and content, I hope the authors are appeased that I do intend to look more into the issue. Their point was made and their call to action will be followed on my part by more research. That, I think, is ultimately their end goal and therefore they can count this as a success.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received Death by China by Peter Navarro and Greg Autry free from Prentice Hall/Pearson through the FSB Media review program. I was not required to write a positive review and did not receive any other compensation. The opinions I have expressed are my own and no one else's. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255 : "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Facing reality
This is the "paralleloverse" that is sitting right next to the thing they show you on TV. "Free trade" with China is nothing of the sort and this book is the best... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Mark T
3.0 out of 5 stars the fact is true, but the reasoning is not reasonable.
A not reasonable reasoning process will not result in reasonable conclusion, or the conclusion is not accurate. Read more
Published 24 days ago by milk
5.0 out of 5 stars Good info
I would recommend that everyone in the USA read this book ESPECIALLY our GOVT. since they seem to have a hard time seeing or admitting what China is actually doing.
Published 1 month ago by Bob G.
5.0 out of 5 stars A must-read
Fantastic info. The authors deserve the kudos they've been getting. If you tell the truth in this country, people will appreciate you. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cesar Lumba
5.0 out of 5 stars A book for an American
Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action should be a required reading for anyone over the age of 9. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ronald L Conkle
1.0 out of 5 stars There is still money to be made in the Yellow Peril game
Long after the bankruptcy of Gordon Chang, came along Peter Navarro. This proves there is always a ready audience, waiting to consume what suites their ideology regardless of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Chan
5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL Eye-Opener!
From the very first chapter, Navarro disclosed shocking information about the food and drugs that originate in China which are causing harm to us here in America. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Christopher A. Carbott
1.0 out of 5 stars biggest crap ever read
this book is the biggest nonsense ever. the author is completely a jerk. full of personal arguments, not based on facts and data.
biggest mistake to read it
Published 2 months ago by Alan Smith
1.0 out of 5 stars watch how this mannerless author
cursing another Asian counterpart on CNBC. The author has been destroyed by his own hatred of China!

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Published 2 months ago by Y. Zhang
1.0 out of 5 stars Total garbage!
The view underlying this book is 10 years too old and total garbage! For a rational view of China and America, read my book: "Saving America, Chinese Style"! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Frank
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