Crouching Tiger: John Mearsheimer on Strangling China the Inevitability of War

As part of the research for my Crouching Tiger book on the rise of Chinas military and its companion documentary film, I interviewed 35 of the top experts in the world from all sides of the China issue. These are key edited excerpts from my sitdown at the University of Chicago with Professor John Mearsheimer, author of the realist classic work The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. My argument, in a nutshell, is that if China continues to grow economically over the next 30 years, much the way it has over