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

Peter W. Navarro , Greg Autry
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Bestselling author Peter Navarro (The Coming China Wars) and Greg Autry challenges the dominant paradigm of a "Chinese Miracle" - the one featuring a modernizing, progressive Chinese state heading toward political reform and driving global economic growth with its new found embrace of capitalism and freedom.
Tearing this delusion away, Death by China documents the myriad ways that a powerful, wealthy, and corrupt Chinese Communist Party emboldened by a growing nationalistic frenzy is becoming the biggest threat to global peace, prosperity, and health since Nazi Germany.
From currency manipulation and abusive trade policies, to slave labor and deadly consumer products, China's ruthless rulers threaten the livelihood of the citizens of every developed nation. These thugs have created a frightening amoral society ruled by a constant fear hidden to outsiders and bought off with the ill gotten profits of a myopic quest for economic advantage at any cost - social, environmental, or civil rights concerns be damned. Worse, as with everything else, China is scaling and exporting the model around this world, threatening their neighbors and exploiting developing nations across the globe with a new imperialism.
While America worries that Al Qaeda or Iran may get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction, China is using our Wal-Mart dollars to build them by the score; filling brand new nuclear submarines with missiles aimed at our heartland and building stealth planes designed to obliterate our friends in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
America's policy of appeasement and perpetual bending to Beijing's tacit threat to stop funding our unsustainable consumption based economy and deficit addicted government has left the Chinese people and the world in a frightening position while achieving absolutely nothing. With each new attempt at further "engagement" China simply rounds up more artists, writers, and political dissidents into its gulags and continues its policies of virtual genocide against the peoples of Tibet and the Uighars of East Turkestan. It tightens control over media and the Internet and expands its regional, territorial and resource claims. Laughing at our timidity, it becomes ever bolder in executing its plan to shutter every last manufacturing plant in the West.
Meanwhile, Western turncoat CEO's are content with pumping up one more quarterly report by driving every last high-value manufacturing jobs to Guangzhou or Chengdu. Congress is happy to be re-elected with contributions from those same corporations. Together they are happy to leave the rest of us with a future of low paying service and retail "careers" based on selling junk made in China to each other while accumulating a pile of Chinese debt and building a geopolitical time bomb of epic proportions.
For every American, European, Japanese or Korean reader who wonders where his job has gone and worries about the world his children will inherit, Death by China is a must read. The book features an inspiring Forward by Chinese Dissident, Baiqiao Tang and a brilliant Epilog by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.


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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

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"At a time when there is a perception that China is the next world power, this book puts the spotlight on a different aspect of China, a country that does not seem ready to be a responsible member of the comity of nations. The international community's failure to take this Chinese reality into consideration will not only be detrimental to the rest of the world, but more so to the Chinese, Tibetan and other people who are confronted with the consequences on a daily basis."
- Bhuchung K. Tsering, Vice President, International Campaign for Tibet
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"I've been long concerned about China's evolving military challenge to America and our allies, but Death by China reveals China's broader strategy of integrated advances on multiple fronts. The authors document how Beijing is using economic weapons of mercantilism and currency manipulation synergistically with espionage, cyber-warfare, space weapons, resource monopolization, and technology theft to gain dominance. In the process, the fundamental economic and geopolitical strengths that underpin America's military superiority are being systematically eroded while China becomes increasingly assertive in regional disputes. Every Western political and military leader should read this book. Now!"
- Jon Gallinetti, Major General, USMC, retired.
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"I myself have escaped the clutches of the Chinese Communist Party and now enjoy a life of freedom in America. It is important for everyone in the nation I love to understand that the aggression of the Chinese government toward human rights does not stop at China's border. Chinese Communist Party leaders believe they are at war with democracy and freedom and any governments that support these values. Death by China is the perfect book to explain how Beijing's strategists e fighting and projecting that war around the world."
- Li Fengzhi, Former Agent of China's Ministry of State Security
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"An important eye-opener for all Americans, Death By China is a must read before your next trip to Wal-Mart - or perhaps the unemployment line."
- Stuart O. Witt, General Manager Mojave Air and Space Port, Test Pilot, USN TOPGUN Graduate
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"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

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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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51 of 64 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 ([...
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56 of 74 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars America, Don't Say You Weren't Warned May 6, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
While reading this book, I was reminded of the few brave souls who warned the world about the perils of Nazism, Communism, and Islamic fundamentalism long before everyone else caught on. They were ignored, and the world paid the price. We have no excuse for making this mistake yet again. As the authors persuasively document without hysteria or prejudice, Beijing is well on its way to becoming the most dangerous government on earth. It is dangerous to its own people who suffer under its dictatorship, to its immediate neighbors, and to the United States. What's worse are the profit-driven lies of a corporate America (and the media it controls and the politicians it owns) eager to Beijing's bidding and whitewash the threat. (I wrote about why free trade with China is a bad idea in my own book, here: Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why, 2011 Edition)
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28 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Planned Financial Invasion May 7, 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
We are losing America a dime at a time!! It's time to admit the free trade policies that are destroying America are not just a accidental Oops. This is a planned financial invasion to steal the wealth of this country.
While every Religious Radio Station professes the threat of the Muslim invasion of America. China continues its financial invasion using our Wal-Mart Stores and our governors and Chambers of Commerce invite China into invest in our heartland.
Death by China should be required reading for every American.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars None
it is soooo easy to pick liberal idiots by the inane reviews they write.
Heaven knows China loves us and shows it by buying every US company they can
get their hands on.
Published 17 days ago by Armand D. Groeneveld
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Saw the author on PBS. Book came before the estimated delivery date. The book itself is something everyone should read. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Shopping Princess
5.0 out of 5 stars Oportunities for be better
This book present in good level the history of China and how the other contries contribuite to make them.. and explain alternatives and the way that China is in problems
Published 20 days ago by XCV
3.0 out of 5 stars Didn't read the book.
Found a youtube clip with the author of this book expressing his ideas on CNBC and thought I would share. Read more
Published 21 days ago by A. Wang
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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago by J. Chan
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