Open Book: Don't Ignore the China Threat

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The Coming China Wars describes how the emergence of China as an economic superpower has given rise to a host of conflicts between China and the rest of the world and within China itself.

As I illustrate in this book, by the iron laws of economics, China has put itself on a collision course with the rest of the world. Because of these iron laws, the coming China wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages and leading-edge technologies to strategic resources such as oil, copper, and steel and eventually to our most basic needs -- bread, water and air. Unless all of the nations of this world -- including China -- immediately address these impending conflicts, the results will be catastrophic. ...