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Death by China (2012)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4

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82

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Average Rating: 4.2/5
User Ratings: 224

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Death by China pointedly confronts the most urgent problem facing America today - its increasingly destructive economic trade relationship with a rapidly rising China. Since China began flooding U.S. markets with illegally subsidized products in 2001, over 50,000 American factories have disappeared, more than 25 million Americans can't find a decent job, and America now owes more than 3 trillion dollars to the world's largest totalitarian nation. Through compelling interviews with voices across

Unrated,

Documentary

Peter Navarro

$37.4k

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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (8)

It sure makes you want to buy American. Assuming you can find anything American to buy.

September 21, 2012 Full Review Source: Detroit News
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It would make a nice TV infomercial, but certainly doesn't deserve a big-screen release.

August 24, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Post
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It is ... unabashedly one-sided and is short on solutions, other than the usual "Call your Congressional representatives."

August 23, 2012 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment (1)
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One 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.

August 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Variety
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Doc offers plenty of good reasons to worry about China, but is astonishingly heavy-handed.

August 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | Comment (1)
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The bulk of the film contains as much hysterical rhetoric as sober analysis.

August 14, 2012 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Manic 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.

November 1, 2012 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness
Shared Darkness

...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.

October 10, 2012 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

[A] rabid piece of agitprop, which swamps a number of legitimate arguments against the current trade arrangement between the U.S. and China with the strident brushstrokes of a bad editorial cartoon.

August 23, 2012 Full Review Source: AV Club
AV Club

Angry, fatally biased but watchable documentary ranting at China for its transgressions and damage done to the U.S. economy cries out for second opinions from other corners besides those damning.

August 20, 2012 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment (1)
Film Journal International

Further confirmation that agitprop documentaries have become wedded to a template that undermines their very arguments.

August 19, 2012 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

As a wake-up call... Navarro scores points.

August 17, 2012 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine
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Audience Reviews for Death by China

This documentary is well researched and extremely non-partisan. It gives an accurate and articulate explanation of how our trade with China has had devastating effects on our Economy. The film gives a face to what is called our Economy--- the people who make up the labor force and now are in precarious economic situations with little hope for the future. As a manufacturing executive, I can say the film is realistic and tells it like it is. Those who find the film biased or orchestrated hysteria, have no concept of what the U.S.'s relationship with China has created for the "everyday "man. Those people are living in a glass house. Besides detailing the elements of how China has effected everyone of us in a concise, factually based manner, using Economists and Industry people as sources, the film enlightens people of the pervasiveness of what "Made In China" means ---not only on the home front economically, but what it means to purchase a product "Made in China" from a human rights and ecological perspective in China itself.As mentioned, as a manufacturer I had a thorough understanding of the repercussions of our massive off shore production moves to China, but the film also enlightened me to the social consequences . And as a professor, I found my students to be 100% enlightened and at the same time speechless, which is not often in my classes, as to what it means to purchase a product Made In China--- the film clearly explains how we got here in a non-partisan manner, China's manipulation of their position in exporting to the USA, and that in simplistic terms, buying the cheapest t-shirt available has a consequence on a social level .The film should be required viewing in the educational system to promote a shift in purchasing habits for future generations and understanding that paying more for something is not always a negative.Death by China should be shown on Primetime TV!
February 18, 2013
Marty P.
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The premise looks like a bit of a stretch, it's probably a paranoia piece with the hopes of creating some type of election year drama (as if there needs to be more). However my interest is peeked, so i guess there plan is working.
January 4, 2013
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