The Bully of Asia by China expert Steven W. Mosher serves as a vital overview of China’s intentions towards Asia.
Throughout its history, China has exerted powerful control over its neighbors – to the extent of its capabilities. This control was justified by a culture that viewed other peoples as inferior, and thus, naturally taking on the status of vassals rather than equals.
In the West’s recent memory, however, China was wracked with turmoil and dominated by the main Western powers and Japan – certainly since the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s. As such, China isn’t viewed with the same keen sense of historical alarm as are Germany and Japan.
China’s economy eclipsed Germany’s years ago and then Japan’s and, as measured by purchasing power parity, is now even larger than America’s economy. Inevitably, China’s military power has followed closely behind.
Mosher’s Bully of Asia clearly explains why China’s rise is a threat, not only to the sovereign independence of its neighbors in Asia, but also to America and its democratic allies.
Reviewer: Chuck DeVore is a Vice President at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He served in the California State Assemblyman from 2004 to 2010. Before his election, he was an executive in the aerospace industry. He was a Special Assistant for Foreign Affairs in the Department of Defense from 1986 to 1988. He is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army (retired) Reserve. DeVore is the author of "The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America" and the co-author of "China Attacks."
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