America's Coming War With China: A Collision Course over Taiwan by Carpenter, Ted Galen

New York NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, hardcover, ix-216 pp, first edition stated, first printing by numberline, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, bump to heel of spine. Dustjacket, slight edge nicks, trace of dried sticker adhesive at head of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. Carpenter proposes that although America officially endorses a one-China policy, it also sells arms to Taiwan and maintains an implicit pledge to defend it from attack, meanwhile China has passed anti-secession laws authorizing force if Taiwan should declare independence, with three nations on a collision course, the author warns what the U.S. must do, and quickly, to avoid being dragged into war. Appended author's notes and index.