More alarming is what Senior Colonel Yao Yunzhu from People's Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences said, "Outer space is going to be weaponized in our lifetime." China is building a massive infrastructure space assets: a growing fleet of huge space tracking ships, new spaceports and ground stations, dozens of new communication, relay and surveillance satellites, and an extremely expensive Global Positioning System (Beidou) (p. 163). Remember that China's Shenzhou missions are close to the International Space Station (45 kilometers). But to see the complete picture we must take into consideration Colonel Jia Junming's internal advice: "Our future space weapons program should be low profile and 'intense internally' but relaxed in external appearance to maintain our good international image and position."(p. 168)
Chapter 12 points out the environmental destruction caused by China to our planet: air pollution (pp. 173-175), water pollution (pp. 176-178), soil toxicity (pp. 178-181), global warming... a Death sentence to China itself and the whole world.
Chapter 13 traces down the roots of all the aforementioned evils: Death by Chinese Pogrom: China's communism, totalitarianism, the ruling Chinese Communist Party, China of today is created from the legacies of both Mao and Deng, and their police state.
The discussion about Death by China on China continues in Chapter 14. It reveals how China has been oppressing indigenous cultures, suppressing religious freedom, human dignities, and slave labor, typically in Tibet, Inner Mogolia, and Xinjiang.
Chapter 15 mentions six major players in the China Apologist Coalition:
1. the democratize and tame the Dragon liberals,
2. the damn the mercantilist torpedo,free trade ahead at any cost conservatives,
3. the Wall Street bankers expat spin doctors,
4. the Washington power elite appeasers,
5. the world is flat globalization gurus,
6. the panda-pandering think tanks
While the success of the Chinese people in other, more democratic societies is the result of pride, a strong work ethic, and a great respect for education, the Communist Party in China has used propaganda to make its citizens, especially the middle class, buy into the idea that its "inspired leadership" and totalitarianism are desirable to keep China's economy miracle growing (pp. 217-218).
What about US leaders and politicians? Both Bush and Obama failed to see the connection between America's economic malaise and China's weapon of job destruction, did not understand the intricacies of global macroeconomics, and believe that China's peaceful rise is good for America (p. 224). Both Treasury Secretaries, Hank Paulson and Timothy Geithner failed to brand China a currency manipulator. Wall Street insiders cannot bite the Beijing hand that has fed them so well. A typical example: Paulson's Goldman Sachs (p.225).
Chapter 16 provides us a survival guide and an action plan.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.Theodore Roosevelt (p.234)
1. Change our attitude. Do not buy Chinese products. Avoid death by China. "Cheap" isn't always the cheapest. (p. 235)
2. Read the label carefully. Look for the country of origin. Avoid "Made in China." (p.235).
3. Tighten the law on labeling the country of origin. Federal law must require all online retailers display information about the country of origin on the labels of all the products they sell. (p. 236)
4. Tighten the law on labeling the country of origin of the ingredients (p. 236).
5. Let your retailer know your attitude: I want China-free goods (p. 237).
6. Be ware of big-ticket items (such as cars) that bear China's foreign brand names (p. 238).
7. Tougher laws that assign blames on wholesalers and retailers which sell China's harmful products in America.
Disarming China's Weapon of Job Destruction:
1. Congress must pass the American Free and Fair Trade Act
2. Global Cooperation and Corporation --the Watchword
3. Send a secret emissary to Beijing to brand China currency manipulation.
4. Recognizing the real corporate risks of Chinese offshoring (intellectual property thefts, pollution, military threats...)
5. Fight back China's mercantilism and protectionism like Nucor Steel Dan DiMicco
6. Stop Chinese forced technology transfer and their hijacking of US Research & Development
7. Stop Chinese censorship as a non-tariff trade barrier
8. Prohibit Chinese state-owned enterprises to buy US private firms
9. America needs a president with both brains and a backbone
(p. 245)
Drawing a Hard Line on Chinese Espionage and Cyberwarfare: (p. 246) beef up Chinese counterintelligence efforts; aggressively prosecute and penalize China's spies; increase scrutiny of Chinese visitors and visas;declare cyberattacks to be acts of wars and respond accordingly; develop a "China kill switch" for the Internet; call Beijing out for its reckless espionage and theft.
Confronting and Countering the Rising China's military threat:(p. 250)
we can't overwhelm China with our industrial might;can't be lured into an arms race and the "Reagan trap";honestly assess our vulnerabilities;disarm China's weapon of job destruction to prevent China's military buildup.
Countering the Colonial Dragon: (p. 152)stop China's UN veto abuses now; rebuild our diplomatic missions with a counter-China focus; get American message out to the world; teach Mandarine in high schools.
Stopping Death on China by China: (p. 255)human rights;divest not invest; restrict exports of Internet censorship tools.
Meeting the China Space Challenge: (p. 257)turn the government's space monopoly to real private industry; promote STEM education; claim the moon before China does.
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
