"Kyle Ferrana has done important work in this brilliant book. The scope of the work is ambitious; it analyzes the history of the evolution of imperialism, while convincingly showing how China is creating the conditions for a new world-system, one in which the Global South can finally reverse centuries of underdevelopment. Through careful and thorough research, Ferrana provides a useful corrective to the myth that China abandoned socialism. This book offers a much-needed update to historical-materialist theory of imperialism for the 21st century."--BENJAMIN NORTON, founder and editor-in-chief of Geopolitical Economy Report

"Kyle has written a beautiful book. In a time when we are bombarded with lies and propaganda, he offers us an exploration into China. Our efforts at China Is Not Our Enemy are for all of us to see each other in ways that lead to cooperation, appreciation and working together for a vibrant future for all. I felt at the core of Kyle's book is this offering; a pathway to peace." JODIE EVANS, co-founder CODEPINK and China Is Not Our Enemy

"Ferrana treats China's place in the world within a sweeping exploration of the shifting contours of global imperialism from which the 20 th century super-imperialism of United States springs. Further, Ferrana debunks simple narratives of China's ruling class as capitalist. Notwithstanding really existing wealth disparities within China, the role of the state and the policy directions supported by the Communist Party continue to demonstrate ties of the latter to the socialist project of working class power, Ferrana argues. Indeed, it is precisely China's distinguishing itself from US super-imperialism in terms of its approaches to ecosustainability, international multipolarity, opposition to settler colonialism and so forth, concludes Ferrana, that has seen it become the object of relentless Western propaganda and misinformation."
RICHARD WESTRA, co-editor, Journal of Contemporary Asia

"Emulating noted French sociologist Emmanuel Todd's rigor in relying on core data rather than ideology, Kyle Ferrana's Why the World Needs China thoroughly debunks Washington's trope that China is likely to initiate a conflict as unsubstantiated, as such leaving one to wonder whether US elites aren't simply projecting onto Beijing their own proclivities to engage in warfare." ARNAUD DEVELAY, International Attorney at Law

"As the drumbeat for war with China is growing, Ferrana has written an incredible book showing why it is China that is the indispensable nation in the world. As Ferrana demonstrates, far from being an inevitable enemy, China is a country which should be courted as a friend and partner in building a better and more equitable world in which sustainable development is offered for all countries, and especially those of the Global South that the West has exploited for so long and is now intent on keeping down. Surely, this book is a much-welcome and much-needed antidote to the endless anti-China rhetoric being pumped out by the White House and regurgitated by the compliant mainstream press."
--DANIEL KOVALIK is a lawyer, educator, author and peace activist

"Millions of people in the Global North are worried about war, austerity, environmental destruction, and climate change, but see nothing but more of the same coming from Western leaders. Most progressive writers of the Global North remain trapped in an updated version 'Yellow Peril' Sinophobia, thinking of China as some kind of 'techno-dystopia', an imperial power in its own right, or an adjunct of US power. Kyle Ferrana's book is a methodical analysis of the unequal global economy led by the US, and of China's post-colonial struggle against this system and for sovereign economic development. Because only economic planning on a sovereign basis can save our planet, understanding recent Chinese history through Why the World Needs China is an antidote to both Sinophobia and to despair." JUSTIN PODUR, host of the Anti-Empire Project, Associate Professor, York University, co-author of Extraordnary Threat: The US Empire, the Meda, and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela