Death By China Confronting The Dragon A Global Call To Action Paperback May 2026

The first “cause of death” would be economic. The book would argue that China has not risen through fair competition but through systematic predation: intellectual property theft, state-subsidized dumping, currency manipulation, and the use of forced technology transfer as a condition for market access. Using case studies—the collapse of U.S. solar panel manufacturing, the hollowing-out of European steel industries, the debt-trap diplomacy in Sri Lanka and Zambia—the author would claim that China’s state-capitalist model is an existential threat to market economies. The “death” here is the death of the liberal economic order, the WTO system, and the middle class of the Global North.

While Death By China would be a passionate, well-footnoted, and terrifying read, it would also be deeply flawed—not because China poses no challenges, but because the framing of “death” and “confrontation” is strategically illiterate and morally hazardous. The first “cause of death” would be economic

The second chapter would focus on Huawei, 5G, TikTok, and artificial intelligence. The argument: China’s surveillance state, powered by social credit systems and facial recognition, is not a domestic aberration but an export product. By embedding backdoors into global telecommunications infrastructure and using platforms like TikTok for data harvesting and algorithmic radicalization, Beijing is systematically eroding the privacy, security, and democratic discourse of other nations. The “death” is the death of digital sovereignty. The second chapter would focus on Huawei, 5G,