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Title: Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World by Steven W. Mosher ISBN: 1893554082 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.79

Rating: 5
Summary: The China Threat
Comment: Steven Mosher is to be congratulateded. In Hegemon he has brilliantly summarized 2,000 years of Chinese history, a history which is based on the notion that China is the center of the world--and should be again.

The China Threat is large and growing. China's Minister of Defense, Chi Haotian, recently remarked that "war with the United States was inevitable." These are chilling words, and make it clear that China is prepared to eject the U.S. from Asia by force if necessary, just as they have threatened Taiwan with the use of force unless it "returns to the embrace of the motherland."

Steve Mosher's book, Hegemon, is a brilliant essay on the logic of China's historical domination of Asia, and what this implies for the future of Asia and the World. He isl careful to differentiate between the Chinese people, for whom he expresses great admiration, and the Chinese government, which is undeniably one of the most brutal in the world.

He proposes a sensible policy for the U.S. and other Western countries to pursue vis-a-vis China--promoting bot only economic reform but also human rights,in the hope of China's peaceful evolution into a free market democracy. Everyone interested in world politics needs to reed this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Must reading for those who thought we could relax
Comment: The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union, history. But a new power is rising, one that has 5 times the population of the old Soviet Union -- and a growing economy -- and territorial designs on its neighbors.

China has a long and proud history. Dr. Mosher properly puts this into perspective, showing readers that, except for very recent history, China has been bigger and stronger by far than any of its Western counterparts, such as the Roman Empire. The Chinese have a keen sense of this history, as well as their recent (past 150 years) humiliations at the hands of the West and Japan.

This book is a must read for all those who think that trade with China can somehow buy off the ambitions of the Chinese leadership to rebuild their empire; their hegemony over Asia and the rest of the world.

China has all the potential to make the Cold War with the Soviet Empire look like a walk in the park.

Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, prophetic look at China's place in the world
Comment: Steven Mosher, one of America's premier China watchers, makes a compelling case for China's plan to dominate Asia and the world. The thesis bears itself out as Mosher draws not only from China's history and actions, but even from its recent White Papers in which it outlines its strategic goals. The Chinese elite are clear that the U.S. is a stumbling block to their own ambitions.

As Mosher explains, this also makes sense given China's history and name. China has always been the largest, most populous, most powerful country in the world in the eyes of the Chinese people. Therefore, the last 100 years of weakness of foreign encroachment of China's invasion by Japan, for example, in the years leading up to WWII was a great blow to Chinese national unity and Chinese pride.

There can be only one hegemon - a single axis of power. For most of China's long history, China has been the hegemon. Mosher demonstrates that the Chinese elite seem determined to recover China's traditional place in the world, at its center. That is what the very name of the country means. Zhonghua, which is how you say China in Chinese, means the "Middle Kingdom." However, the Chinese elite have another way to refer to their country which is even more revealing. They call it Tian-Xia, which means "All under Heaven."

Mosher's book is eye opening. Far from xenophobic fear or partisan politics the book examines human rights abuses in China, the prevailing myths which the U.S. holds about China, and suggests courses of action for U.S. policy towards a country which shares neither our values nor our institutions.

Mosher also explains the effect of the U.S. policy of engagement and the myth that rising market forces alone will transform China.

Rather than China becoming more like us, we are becoming more like them. This is evidenced by the fact that the U.S. and China both have the most permissive abortion laws in the world, allowing abortion up until the birth of the baby. Furthermore, with China's strict one-child laws, not only are the Chinese killing their own children, but with the export of RU-486 they are also killing our own.

Those who would summarily dismiss this book are perhaps like our own government that believes that China is a threat only if the U.S. government says it is.

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