The book, a trenchant critique of the American China Policy, explores the reasons for continuing American paranoia in viewing China as a potential enemy even though China poses no economic or strategic threat. Even the U.S. Defense Department concedes that, except for a small elite force, Chinese defence forces are ill-trained, ill-equipped and technologically lag far behind the U.S. Armed Forces. Even during the Mao era, China did not underestimate the ...