Title: Sensationalistic nonsense
Product review: I picked this book up out of morbid curiosity and found myself exposed to exactly what I expected after reading the summary: ridiculous fearmongering tripe. There are issues to be concerned about involving China, but this book does not address those issues directly so much as try to stir up feelings of antagonism towards China in the reader. If you are not easily swayed by jingoistic rhetoric, and instead prefer a high quality of critical thought, skip this one. That is the problem with this book: it relies primarily on appeals to emotion rather than good scholarship. At times this approaches the point where the authors' writing style can barely be taken seriously. There are some decent books on China and its role in world politics out there. This little block of drivel is certainly not among them.
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