The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won

Appendix . Acknowledgments

The book benefited greatly from numerous discussions and interviews conducted over a five-year period. I am particularly grateful to the many Chinese students in my business school classes at the University of California-Irvine from both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). Despite cultural barriers, many were willing to express and share their views candidly in both a classroom setting and private conversations.

The primary research for this book involved analyses of tens of thousands of pages of material from books, newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, government agencies both within and outside China, international organizations such as the World Bank and World Health Organization, ...