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Summary: Neocon nonsense
Review: Another failed attempt to create a post-Cold War threat. Why would China bite the hand that feeds it and through investments keeps the Party in power and the masses satisfied?I wonder how much time the author has spent in China. Well I lived in both China & Taiwan (which is part of China) and speak Chinese so I will bet that I have a better idea what is going on in China than he. Yes there are elements that hate us and distrust us but the men at the top know that their survival is tied to a thriving economy that requires forreign $$$ - Japan and the USA are the main sources of this $$$. Now go write a book teling us how Iraq is a threat and why we need to invade that country cause your hype about China is baseless!
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Summary: At long last, the awful truth about the PRC's PLA
Review: Being a student of the People's Liberation Army, I must commend Timperlake and Triplett for a long overdue effort to present the painful truth about the key enforcing pilar of power in the PRC today. As did the Cox Report earlier this year, RED DRAGON RISING presents a wake-up call for a country who's gaze has been averted by a corrupt administration and a national security bureaucracy that would rather salute and ignore a growing threat to America. They present for the first time in greater detail than anywhere else: the PLA export of nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan; how the PLA has long used North Korea as a front for proliferation; how the PLA CAN win the future war for Taiwan and begin to chase the US out of Asia; and how the PLA's investment in asymetrical warfare, namely information warfare, could lay low the United States. Read this book for your kids. Really. You need to be informed about the wars we are blundering into, so that you can choose leaders today who can try to ensure that your kids don't have to march off to that awful future conflict.
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Summary: waste of my time
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and highly recommend it for anyone wishing to truly understand the complex U.S.-China relationship. Although, as one reviewer put it the book reads like "Republican Propaganda," the truth of the matter remains China is a real and viable threat to America. Unfortunately, much of China's recent success is due largely in part to the questionable dealings of the Clinton-Gore administration. Even placing the political arguments aside this book serves as a real wake-up call to America in regards to the hostile nature of the world's largest country.
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Summary: waste of my time
Review: If you want a balanced, thoughtful background on the PRC's relationship to the US you will have to read this book in conjunction with something written by Maoist revolutionaries. From the first page the authors fail to provide any kind of serious analysis to provide a thinking reader something to ponder. Thankfully I received the book as a gift and didn't have to waste my own money on it.
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Summary: Maybe the first reviewer would like to write his over
Review: In light of this weeks taking of our 24 servicemen by China maybe Mr.Stevenson in the first review of this book should rewrite his review.This book is apparantly very accurate in their information on China.Anyone watching and listening the news this week is more informed on how Clinton in fact did put money and power over the interests of this country.We are also hearing some of the very things coming to light that Red Dragon Rising is speaking of.Thank you for the courage to write this book and giving us more of an understanding of what is really happening with China and America.
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Summary: The Red Chinese Threat to U.S. National Security
Review: In the news, I recently heard a People's Liberation Army strategist, Liu Jiangjia, stated brusquely: "War is not far from us now. A new arms race has started to develop." First published in 1999, during the twilight of the Clinton Administration, this Regnery classic has made light of Clinton overtures to Beijing and the startling developments in Red China's military industrial complex. Red China is well on its way to becoming a hegemonic military superpower as her economic liberalization and foreign trade continues to buoy her GDP. Moreover, her military insiders often speak of the U.S. as an "enemy" and a "threat." Red China is embracing what the CIA calls a social market economy. Essentially, kleptocrat communist party bosses are taking the helm in controlling the vibrant military-industrial consortiums with foreign investors. China's economy is developing rapidly. Western expertise and investment from aerospace American companies like Boeing, for example, may prove to be a huge national security risk. (Frankly, American companies in the absence of firm U.S. government controls have proven willingness to compromise American security for profit.) The Clinton Administration presided over an immense relaxation of technology transfer controls and has turned a blind eye to Chinese espionage. Ethnic Chinese have seized economic and/or political control over nations throughout the Pacific Rim. However, one should realize many ethnic Chinese don't have sympathy with the Red regime in Beijing like the Taiwanese. The Chinese have been actively expanding their reach throughout Pacific Rim and are even getting strong Latin American connections. For example, a PLA-affiliated company has seized control of the Panama Canal and has built a transshipment facility in the Bahamas. China could feasibly use Panama as strategic chokepoint cutting off U.S. trade. Obviously this economic jugular vein can be a useful blackmail chip in power politics games. Books like _Red Cocaine_ have demonstrated a considerable Sino-Soviet involvement in the drug trade and no doubt Chinese shipping industry carries opium bound for the Americas. Red China's connection with radical Islamist countries in arms dealings is alarming. If China ever wanted to subject the giant Gulliver to a campaign of terrorism, it's conceivable she could do so covertly by arming and assisting efforts of radical Islamist terrorists. China has demonstrated a willingness to work with radical Islamist regimes and Muslim nations to enhance their military and nuclear programs. Some of the more dangerous technology transfers of U.S. knowledge to Red China may be through intermediaries like Israel. The authors have pointed out that Israel - America's professed ally - is selling weapons and sensitive technology to Red China. They have assisted in the development of a Chinese fighter based on the F-16. What is more alarming is that Israel is usually the first to get America's latest and greatest hi-tech weaponry once it goes into production. The strategic technological lead that the new JSF and F-22 weapons programs gives the U.S. could be egregiously compromised if Israel as a participant leaks sensitive technology to Red China for profit. As an addendum to this book's findings, I would add careful news analysis reveals that the Bush Administration frankly has waffled on Taiwan and has made more concessions to China and even hinted at support for unification with the mainland. This is something that the defend the GOP come hell or high water crowd simply ignores. Moreover, he has likely failed to sufficiently address the economic and security threats China poses. Obviously, the administration has failed to rein in on the openness with China and the loosening of technology transfer controls that his predecessor Clinton initiated. Timperlake and Triplett are to be commended for their research in profiling the national security threat posed by Red China. Though, I think more substantive in-depth research could have been done. (I give it a 3.5/5.0 rating.)
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Summary: The Clinton-Gore Administration
Review: In their first book, 'Year of the Rat,' the authors uncovered the ugly truth about illegal Chinese campaign contributions to Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Now in "Red Dragon Rising' they have exposed in frightening and pain-staking detail how the Clinton-Gore administration has helped Communist China achieve its military ambitions. By putting dollars before national security, they have assisted an emerging superpower in becoming a future deadly threat to our national security. To (heck) with the 'Lewinsky Affair,' China-Gate is the most outrageous scandal of this 'the most ethical administration in history.'
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Summary: Among the most important books on America's future .
Review: Red Dragon Rising takes its place among the most important books that deal with America's future and the military challenge posed by communist China. It is must reading for both Asia and U.S. national security scholars. The book's photos and graphic naratives prove, beyond any doubt, the horrendous extent of the massacre of pro-democracy students and activists at Tiananmen Square and documents the current positions of the Chinese military commanders of the massacre. Triplett and Timperlake show that, unfortunately, a number of those brutal Tiananmen generals -- who now control China's nuclear arsenal aimed at the United States -- have been treated as guests of honor at the Clinton White House and at the Pentagon. Red Dragon Rising is a riveting clarion call to understand the peril we face and the need to rebuild America's military and counter-intelligence systems in the wake of the Clinton Chinagate scandals.
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Summary: Republican Propaganda
Review: The book focuses more on beating down the Clinton-Gore Administration than Communist China's military. Much better are "The Coming Conflict With China" by Bernstein and Munro, "China Wakes" by Kristof and Wudunn, or anything by Lee Kuan Yew that pertains to the PRC for a more balanced and accurate depiction of China's leadership. At times, the book reads a preemptive strike on Al Gore for a possible 2004 presidential campaign. The gory picture of Chinese run over by tanks as well as oversimplified maps contributed little to the book's subject. As vast and complex a country is China, I was also disappointed a detailed map that showed every province wasn't included. I expected more hard data such as numbers of missles, fighter planes, warships, submarines, etc. versus those of the US military.
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Summary: Very interesting theory about China's threat
Review: The book is very interesting and full of imagination. The authors try to convince readers that China's threat was attributed to Clinton-Gore adminstration. However, they forgot the development of Chinese military forces (PLA) was strengthened and enhanced since 1972. Kinssinger and Nixon initiated the relationship with China through Ford, Carter, Ragon, Bush, and Clinton. Since Ragon adminstration, mass millitary, high-technology and intelligence exchanges between China and USA resulted in the greater threat of Chinese millitary forces (PLA). So far, "One China Policy" which was proceeded by the many former US presidents has been totaly failure. This book only told the results, but did not tell you reasons. I recommand readers to read "About Face: A history of America's curious relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton" written by James Mann, 1998 (Alfred A. Knopf Publisher, New York). You will understand the whole and true story and the facts.
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