Introduction / G.B. Collins, A.S. Erickson, L.J. Goldstein, and W.S. Murray -- Part I: Chinas's energy future and national security strategy -- Dilemmas and imperatives of Beijing's strategic energy independence: the PLA perspective / J. Mulvenon -- Energy as China's Achilles Heel? / C.W....

A disturbing look at the growing political, economic, and social power of China and the threat that nation poses to the Western world, this book lays out how the Chinese are strategizing to overtake the United States as the world's premier economic power--and details how our failure to respond...