Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World

Author(s): Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg

Politics

In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent InvasionHidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy.


With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideological struggle with the West. Combining a mass of evidence with unique insights, Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg lay bare the nature and extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations across the Western world – in politics, business, universities, think tanks and international institutions such as the UN. This new authoritarian power is using democracy to undermine democracy in pursuit of its global ambitions.


Combining meticulous research with compelling prose, Hidden Hand brings to light the Chinese Communist Party's threats to democratic freedoms and national sovereignty across Europe and North America – and show how we might push back against its autocratic influence.


Governments around the world are in the early stages of a repositioning of power, as China rises and the United States is drawn into direct competition. But some are beginning to wonder whether, for all of the economic benefits, engaging with China carries unseen dangers.


China is now determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in democracy. It divides the world into those who can be won over, and enemies. They have already lured many leaders to their corner; others are weighing up a devil's bargain. Through its exercise of 'sharp power', the party is weakening global institutions, ferociously targeting individual corporations, and threatening freedom of expression from the arts to academia.


At the same time, security services are increasingly worried about incursions into our communications infrastructure. Indeed, the vaunted Great Firewall is seen as a temporary measure, only necessary until the party has transformed the conversation at the global level. We have already missed too many warning signs - now it is time to wake up.  


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General Fields

  • : 9781743795576
  • : Hardie Grant Publishing
  • : Hardie Grant Egmont
  • : October 2019
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  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Clive Hamilton; Mareike Ohlberg
  • : Paperback
  • : 2020
  • : English
  • : 327.51
  • : 288