May's Book: "The Coming China Wars" by Peter Navarro

Summary

Navarro (Paul Merage School of Business, U. of California at Irvine)  argues that the rise of China is the greatest threat to world peace and prosperity today. In making this argument, he identifies eight "wars" China is engaged in: destroying global intellectual property regimes, operating as a major banking hub for drug money laundering, despoiling the environment with toxic industrial emissions, working with dictators around the world in order to satisfy their need for oil, acting as a relentless imperial creditor nation, endangering the welfare and prosperity of lower Mekong River countries through the reconstruction of massive dams, failing to manage its own internal political stability, and threatening to unleash HIV/AIDS and other disease epidemics upon its own population and the rest of the world. His goal in this work is to identify the underlying economic roots of all of these "wars" in order to point the way towards solutions. Annotation ©2007 Book  News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) For more information about this book or to reserve a copy, click on the below link for the Columbus Metro Library. http://catalog.columbuslibrary.org/?itemid=|library/marc/cml|3825-78460

Upcoming Book List and Meeting Dates

May 20: The Coming China Wars, plus movie: China Blue
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-China-Wars-Revised-Expanded/dp/0132359820/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292863859&sr=1-2

June 24: A Small Place, plus movie: Life and Debt
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292863901&sr=1-1

July 22: Disposable Domestics, plus movie Mississippi Chicken
http://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Domestics-Immigrant-Workers-Economy/dp/0896086178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292863923&sr=1-1

August 19: Maria Teresa Tula, plus movie
http://www.amazon.com/Hear-My-Testimony-Activist-Salvador/dp/0896084841/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1292863986&sr=1-1

September 23: Don’t be Afraid Gringo, plus movie: Salvador
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Afraid-Gringo-Honduran/dp/006097205X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

October 21: Benedita da Silva
http://www.amazon.com/Benedita-Silva-Afro-Brazilian-Womans-Politics/dp/0935028706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292864069&sr=1-1