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Crouching Tiger

What China's Militarism Means for the World

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Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important, it lays out an in-depth analysis of the possible pathways to peace. Written like a geopolitical detective story, the narrative encourages reader interaction by starting each chapter with an intriguing question that often challenges conventional wisdom.

Based on interviews with more than thirty top experts, the author highlights a number of disturbing facts about China's recent military buildup and the shifting balance of power in Asia: the Chinese are deploying game-changing "carrier killer" ballistic missiles; some of America's supposed allies in Europe and Asia are selling highly lethal weapons systems to China in a perverse twist on globalization; and, on the U.S. side, debilitating cutbacks in the military budget send a message to the world that America is not serious about its "pivot to Asia."

In the face of these threatening developments, the book stresses the importance of maintaining US military strength and preparedness and strengthening alliances, while warning against a complacent optimism that relies on economic engagement, negotiations, and nuclear deterrence to ensure peace.

Accessible to readers from all walks of life, this multidisciplinary work blends geopolitics, economics, history, international relations, military doctrine, and political science to provide a better understanding of one of the most vexing problems facing the world.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 14, 2015
      Drawing on interviews with a host of experts, Navarro (Death by China), a macro-
      economist at the UC Irvine’s Merage School of Business, paints a chilling, though didactic, picture of a future face-off between the U.S. and China in this companion piece to his documentary series, Death by China. The book is sliced into six parts; each brief chapter opens with a question as Navarro considers past conflicts in an attempt to peer into possible futures. At issue is Chinese hegemony and the potential threat held by the secret nuclear arsenal stored in its 3,000-mile-long “Great Underground Wall.” Estimates of the stockpile’s size range wildly from hundreds to thousands of warheads. Framing the discussion with the ancient conflict between established power Sparta and rising Athens, Navarro bases his argument on the theory of the “tragedy of great power politics” as set forth by University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer. Since many believe that any minor conflict—such as the recent one with Japan over the Senkaku Islands—could provoke the “crouching tiger” to pounce, paranoia fuels American thinking about China’s military buildup and the erosion of U.S. naval dominance in the Pacific. Navarro’s academic tone can overpower his message, but this is a useful survey of the foundations of U.S.-China hostility. Agent: Andrew Stuart, the Stuart Agency.

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