Death by China: Confronting the Dragon--A Global Call to Action (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2011) by Peter Narravo and Greg Autry is a must read to understand China and the 21st-century colonialism and imperialism. The Foreword was by Baiqiao Tang, a Tiananmen Square protester and co-author of My Two Chinas: The memoirs of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary, who is now living in New York City.
The book consists of five parts with 16 Chapters. At the end of the book there are also an epilogue, end notes, and an index.
The first three chapters discuss all the risks the world (including Chinese newborns in mainland China)now faces as consumers of China's lethal products, foods, and drugs; China's economic weapons of job destruction and market share grabbing from the US and other countries; and China's voracious and lethal appetites for the Earth's raw materials and natural resources.
From melamine found in milk, pet foods, chicken feed, and baby formula to gutter oil used in Chinese restaurants, the whole world is being poisoned by Chinese goods. On the job market, the US alone has lost millions of manufacturing jobs to China's mockery of free trade. America's apparel, textile, and furniture industries have shrunk to half their size since China became a member of the WTO.
70% of China's water bodies are severely polluted, and acid rains from China spread across Asia (p.6). Yet this huge world's factory keeps growing and demanding more and more raw materials. By 2035 China's oil demand will exceed that of current total oil production for the entire world. (p.3)
From Africa, Asia to Latin America, China's 21st-century colonialism always begins with low-interest loans to build up the country's infrastructure in exchange for raw materials and access to local markets. After the country took the bait, China brings its huge army of workers and engineers to build infrastructure and telecommunications systems for the country while transporting back to China its raw materials. Finally, China dumps its finished goods back to the local markets, and goes on driving its new colony into perpetual unemployment and poverty. (pp.4-5)
(To be continued)
Sources:
Death by China
Available at:
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B23GcuCxvQVBNjhjNGE4NjctZGZmNy00YTNmLWFlYmUtZjY3OTc3OThhNjU4&hl=en_US&authkey=CIuC07sC
Video with Author Greg Autry
http://deathbychina.com/introvideo.html
URL of Intro
http://deathbychina.com/
Baiqiao Tang’s Blog
http://www.deathbychina.com/blog/?p=92
