
In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization with the strong support of a Democratic President and Republican Congress. Before the ink was dry on this free trade agreement, China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized exports while the big multinational companies that had lobbied heavily for the agreement rapidly accelerated the off shoring of American jobs to China. Today, as a result of the biggest shell game in American history, China has stolen millio... (Full plot summary below)
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In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization with the strong support of a Democratic President and Republican Congress. Before the ink was dry on this free trade agreement, China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized exports while the big multinational companies that had lobbied heavily for the agreement rapidly accelerated the off shoring of American jobs to China. Today, as a result of the biggest shell game in American history, China has stolen millions of our jobs, corporate profits are soaring, and we now owe over $3 trillion to the world's largest totalitarian nation. This film is about how that happened... and why the best jobs program for America is trade reform with China.
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| Detroit NewsTom LongIt sure makes you want to buy American. Assuming you can find anything American to buy. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...unabashed agitative propaganda in the style of Michael Moore. It's selective in its facts, and it doesn't really engage its putative audience as adults, opting instead for cutesy graphics. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibOne need not fully subscribe to Peter Navarro's demonization to appreciate his lucid wake-up call to the imminent dangers of the huge U.S.-China trade imbalance and its disastrous impact on the American economy. |
| Paste MagazineJay AntaniAs a wake-up call... Navarro scores points. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerIt is also unabashedly one-sided and is short on solutions, other than the usual "Call your Congressional representatives." But its message, despite the hyperbole, certainly warrants examination and discussion. |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonManic and scattershot, Death by China is too overheated to impart its case with surgical precision. It feels, by God, but also overwhelms. Ergo, barely a recommendation. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirMuch of the argument Navarro assembles in Death by China is unassailable as to its basic facts, even if the tone and manner of presentation leave much to be desired. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeFull of legitimate, even urgent concerns but so garish in tone it encourages viewers to view it as propaganda, Peter Navarro's Death By China does a disservice to its message. |
| Village VoiceAndrew SchenkerThe bulk of the film contains as much hysterical rhetoric as sober analysis. |
| Slant MagazineNick SchagerFurther confirmation that agitprop documentaries have become wedded to a template that undermines their very arguments. |