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As it flexes its diplomatic and military muscles, China is becoming an increasingly powerful player on the world stage. Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro's flawed but important The Coming Conflict with China analyzed the implications for American policymakers. Edward Timperlake and William Triplett also believe that a confrontation between China and the U.S. is inevitable. In Red Dragon Rising, they describe a series of worst-case scenarios, such as a bloody invasion of Taiwan. If the situation is as dangerous as they indicate, however, they have done America a disservice by the extreme political spin they give their arguments. They attempt to associate the Clinton administration with every evil of which China's unsavory Communist regime is capable. Photographs of Clinton and Gore talking with Chinese leaders are illustrated to prove their complicity with butchers--but what should we make of photos of Bush doing the same? A reference to Chinese New Year as Tet, a purely Vietnamese term, suggests the parameters of the authors' experience. In a disclaimer on the cover, they state that their details of the Tiananmen massacre are necessary to show the true nature of Communist China's government, but their lurid descriptions are gratuitous. This work is not balanced analysis or serious contemporary history but party-political poison. Red Dragon Rising is a cheap book, full of cheap shots (it is simplistic to hold China, for all its faults, responsible for "two million Cambodians killed"), whose political bias cheapens its important subject. Right-wing conspiracy theorists will love this book; others will not. --John Stevenson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book illuminates the Chinese People's Liberation Army's activities and the threat they pose to America.
As it flexes its diplomatic and military muscles, China is becoming an increasingly powerful player on the world stage. Richard Bernstein and Ross Munro's flawed but important The Coming Conflict with China analyzed the implications for American policymakers. Edward Timperlake and William Triplett also believe that a confrontation between China and the U.S. is inevitable. In Red Dragon Rising, they describe a series of worst-case scenarios, such as a bloody invasion of Taiwan. If the situation is as dangerous as they indicate, however, they have done America a disservice by the extreme political spin they give their arguments. They attempt to associate the Clinton administration with every evil of which China's unsavory Communist regime is capable. Photographs of Clinton and Gore talking with Chinese leaders are illustrated to prove their complicity with butchers--but what should we make of photos of Bush doing the same? A reference to Chinese New Year as Tet, a purely Vietnamese term, suggests the parameters of the authors' experience. In a disclaimer on the cover, they state that their details of the Tiananmen massacre are necessary to show the true nature of Communist China's government, but their lurid descriptions are gratuitous. This work is not balanced analysis or serious contemporary history but party-political poison. Red Dragon Rising is a cheap book, full of cheap shots (it is simplistic to hold China, for all its faults, responsible for "two million Cambodians killed"), whose political bias cheapens its important subject. Right-wing conspiracy theorists will love this book; others will not. --John Stevenson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book illuminates the Chinese People's Liberation Army's activities and the threat they pose to America.
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On a crisp autumn evening in 1997, guests at a White House state dinner listened as President William Jefferson Clinton warmly welcomed President Jiang Zemin, the leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Communist regime that holds a fifth of the world's population in its grasp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, North Korea, People's Armed Police, Communist Party, Hong Kong, Tiananmen Square, President Clinton, Communist China, People's Liberation Army, State Department, Soviet Union, White House, Communist Chinese, General Xiong, New York, Chinese Communists, Gulf War, United Nations, Middle East, People's Republic of China, Cox Committee, Deng Xiaoping, Spratly Islands, Department of Defense, Group Army New!
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On a crisp autumn evening in 1997, guests at a White House state dinner listened as President William Jefferson Clinton warmly welcomed President Jiang Zemin, the leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Communist regime that holds a fifth of the world's population in its grasp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
information warfare attack, dragon rising, warfare program, ring magnets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, North Korea, People's Armed Police, Communist Party, Hong Kong, Tiananmen Square, President Clinton, Communist China, People's Liberation Army, State Department, Soviet Union, White House, Communist Chinese, General Xiong, New York, Chinese Communists, Gulf War, United Nations, Middle East, People's Republic of China, Cox Committee, Deng Xiaoping, Spratly Islands, Department of Defense, Group Army New!
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