Crouching tiger : what China's militarism means for the world / Peter Navarro ; [foreword by Gordon G. Chang.]
2015
KNQ2400 .N38 2015 (Mapit)
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Crouching tiger : what China's militarism means for the world / Peter Navarro ; [foreword by Gordon G. Chang.]
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Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2015.
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335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Foreword: "China's existential challenge to the world'' / by Gordon G. Chang
Prologue
Part 1. The best or worst of intentions? The Thucydides trap meets the "security dilemma"
China's century of humiliation and its homeland-protection imperative
Escaping a "Malacca Dilemma" and guarding trade routes
America's once and future embargo?
A "revisionist" or "status quo" power?
Part 2. Assessing capabilities. Some sobering military-budget math
The ghost of Admiral Liu Huaqing haunting Asia
The game-changing aircraft-carrier killer
The underground Great Wall of China
The missiles "R" us of the world
Any ship can be a minesweeper - once
Nukes at sea and sleepless in Seattle
Chinese subs lay in wait - with Europe's complicity
Down to the sea in surface ships
The best Air Force spies can steal
Deny, degrade, deceive, disrupt, and destroy in space
The Internet meets Mephistopheles
The dark strategic beauty of the nonkinetic three warfares
The sum of all Chinese capabilities
Part 3. Triggers, trip wires, and flash points. The (almost) unsinkable aircraft carrier of Taiwan
The wild child and wild card of North Korea
On the rocks in the East China Sea
A Paracel Islands prelude to the next Vietnam War
A hungry cow's tongue in the South China Sea
China's new Monroe Doctrine for Asia
Bye, bye to Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai
An imploding China wags the dog
Madison's "mischief of factions" with Chinese characteristics
The emerging China-Russia threat vector
Part 4. Surveying the battlefield. When quantity has a quality of its own
The forward base as a soft, fixed target
The ongoing battle over air-sea battle
A net assessment of offshore control
What might "victory" look like?
Part 5. Pathways to peace that (probably) won't work. Should America beat a neoisolationist retreat?
Will economic engagement keep the peace?
Will economic interdependence prevent war?
Will nuclear weapons deter conventional war?
Can we negotiate our way out of the Thucydides trap?
Is a "grand bargain" with China feasible?
Part 6. Pathways to peace through strength. The logic and architecture of peace through strength
On the primacy of peace through economic strength
Toward a new strategy for peace through military strength
Pivot softly and carry a firm alliance stick
Defeating the enemy that is us.
Prologue
Part 1. The best or worst of intentions? The Thucydides trap meets the "security dilemma"
China's century of humiliation and its homeland-protection imperative
Escaping a "Malacca Dilemma" and guarding trade routes
America's once and future embargo?
A "revisionist" or "status quo" power?
Part 2. Assessing capabilities. Some sobering military-budget math
The ghost of Admiral Liu Huaqing haunting Asia
The game-changing aircraft-carrier killer
The underground Great Wall of China
The missiles "R" us of the world
Any ship can be a minesweeper - once
Nukes at sea and sleepless in Seattle
Chinese subs lay in wait - with Europe's complicity
Down to the sea in surface ships
The best Air Force spies can steal
Deny, degrade, deceive, disrupt, and destroy in space
The Internet meets Mephistopheles
The dark strategic beauty of the nonkinetic three warfares
The sum of all Chinese capabilities
Part 3. Triggers, trip wires, and flash points. The (almost) unsinkable aircraft carrier of Taiwan
The wild child and wild card of North Korea
On the rocks in the East China Sea
A Paracel Islands prelude to the next Vietnam War
A hungry cow's tongue in the South China Sea
China's new Monroe Doctrine for Asia
Bye, bye to Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai
An imploding China wags the dog
Madison's "mischief of factions" with Chinese characteristics
The emerging China-Russia threat vector
Part 4. Surveying the battlefield. When quantity has a quality of its own
The forward base as a soft, fixed target
The ongoing battle over air-sea battle
A net assessment of offshore control
What might "victory" look like?
Part 5. Pathways to peace that (probably) won't work. Should America beat a neoisolationist retreat?
Will economic engagement keep the peace?
Will economic interdependence prevent war?
Will nuclear weapons deter conventional war?
Can we negotiate our way out of the Thucydides trap?
Is a "grand bargain" with China feasible?
Part 6. Pathways to peace through strength. The logic and architecture of peace through strength
On the primacy of peace through economic strength
Toward a new strategy for peace through military strength
Pivot softly and carry a firm alliance stick
Defeating the enemy that is us.
Summary
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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Map on lining papers.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Number
KNQ2400 .N38 2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781633881143 hardcover
1633881148 hardcover
9781633881150 (e-book)
1633881148 hardcover
9781633881150 (e-book)
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