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 China’s 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 sit-down 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