Crouching Tiger : What China's Militarism Means for the World / Peter Navarro ; [Foreword by Gordon G. Chang.]

Map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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."