Donald Trump's pick to head the White House Trade Council Peter Navarro believes that China's Communist government is a despicable, brutal, parasitic, crass, and callous totalitarian imperialist power.

Navarro's appointment was not well received by the mainland because of his outspoken views that China is a brass-knuckled regime that is also the biggest police state and prison in the world.

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China's ruling elite initially seemed convinced that ties with Washington could be mended with the deal-making Donald Trump in charge, but Navarro's nomination has seen that resolve waver.

Navarro, a business professor at the University of California, is being seen as a hindrance to hopes of bringing the two nuclear powers together.

While making the announcement of his nomination, Trump's transition team described Navarro as a "brilliant policy mind and a tireless worker." But Beijing sees him as a radical hawk and is unlikely to concur with such sentiments.

The professor has penned a number of highly stinging anti-China publications, such as "Death by China" and "Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World."

He has accused the communist country of destroying both American factories and lives by flooding the US with illegal "contaminated, defective and cancerous" exports.

In a 2012 Netflix documentary based on "Death by China," the Harvard-educated scholar blamed China for the loss of 57,000 American factories and 25 million jobs.

"The repressive communist government is now victimizing both American and Chinese citizens alike," the documentary, which Trump termed as "spot on," claimed.

Navarro is also on record accusing China of being a "global pollution factory" and "disease incubator." He made no secret of his revulsion for China's rulers during Trump's election campaign.

Li Yonghui, the head of the school of international relations at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, opined that Navarro's nomination is in tandem with Trump's hawkish view of China.

"We should stay vigilant. We have to be prepared," Li said, adding that Trump will place unprecedented pressure on China.

Responding to his appointment, China's Global Times said that "China needs to face up to the reality that the Trump team maintains a hard-line attitude toward China," urging the government  to be fully prepared for any offensive move by the Trump government.

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