Washington's China

Midwest Book Review

College-level students of political science and foreign relations will find plenty of background history in Washington's China: The National Security World, the Cold War, and the Origins of Globalism.

The International History Review

Controversial and provocative, Peck's passionate book Is now an indispensable part of the literature on the modern history of US-China relations.

The Journal of American History

In this new examination of U.S.-China policy, based in part on recently declassified intelligence documents, James Peck explains that the "visionary globalism" of American policy makers mandated a hostile attitude toward China in order to give the United States time to implement plans for restructuring the Asian economy along liberal-capitalist lines.

Library Journal

Peck (director, U.S.-China Book Publication Project), like Hillary Rodham Clinton, began his political life as an Illinois conservative Republican in the 1960s but was radicalized by the Vietnam War. The present book, based on close readings of American internal government documents from the 1940s to the present (some newly declassified), develops his radical critique of American power. Peck systematically relates America's Asia policies to the military security state and the need to control Asian rivals; the power that will shake the world is the United States, not China. This critical intellectual history of policy debates in military and security agencies over the last 50 years is suitable for all larger libraries and specialist collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.