{"id":102533,"date":"2012-08-17T03:44:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=102533"},"modified":"2012-08-16T22:46:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:46:36","slug":"death-by-china-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/death-by-china-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Death by China Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Death by China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Peter Navarro<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An alarmist nonfiction film in the mode of the Oscar-winning &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221; or debt-busting docs &#8220;I Want Your Money&#8221; and &#8220;I.O.U.S.A.,&#8221; director Peter Navarro&#8217;s &#8220;Death by China&#8221; targets what it deems the most urgent problem facing America today &#8212;\u00a0our country&#8217;s\u00a0increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China. There&#8217;s an impassioned\u00a0level of energy here, and certainly the weight and force of much educated opinion. But like a teenager whose emotionality trumps their ability to rationally and cogently articulate an argument, &#8220;Death by China&#8221; is a bit too manic, scattershot and overheated to impart its case with surgical precision. It feels, by God, but it also overwhelms.<\/p>\n<p>When China joined the World Trade\u00a0Organization in 2001 &#8212; after having their entrance lobbied for by both President Bill Clinton and prominent members of the Republican-controlled Congress as well, like former Speakers of the House Dennis Hastert and Tom DeLay &#8212; it was viewed by many as it was sold: as a level-playing-field\u00a0market opening for American businesses to what amounts to basically one-fifth of the world&#8217;s population. Of course, that sunny scenario required China to play by fair rules, instead of working to subvert American companies through currency manipulation, intellectual piracy and a tsunami of cheaply produced products courtesy of human rights abuses and forced labor prison camps. In retrospect, the United States&#8217;\u00a0more-carrot-than-stick approach seems incredibly na\u00efve and wrongheaded.<\/p>\n<p>Narrated by Martin Sheen, and based on Navarro and Greg Autry&#8217;s book of the same name, &#8220;Death by China&#8221; makes, by its conclusion, a fairly convincing\u00a0case that a good portion of America&#8217;s 50,000 shuttered and disappeared companies over the past decade-plus (many in the manufacturing sector)\u00a0and much of its\u00a0three trillion dollar debt to China can be blamed on a willful and crooked gaming of the system by China&#8217;s communist government, who has taken economic advantage of illegal subsidies and the world&#8217;s most degraded environment to\u00a0achieve cost advantages that outstrip baseline profitability in various industries. Of course, the notion that China would play hardball to achieve its own economic objectives shouldn&#8217;t be wildly surprising.<\/p>\n<p>But Navarro&#8217;s\u00a0hammy, feverish directorial flourishes, of which there are many (export subsidies are represented by animated bombs ripping apart an American map) do much to undercut the intellectual balance of his film&#8217;s case, as does his jumpy editing. The parade of interviewees &#8212; including AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, &#8220;Forbes&#8221; columnist Gordon Chang, &#8220;Newsweek&#8221; columnist Robert Samuels, and various Congressmen and other government officials &#8212; lends credence and credibility to &#8220;Death by China&#8221;&#8216;s anxious claims. 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