Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence

Bethany Allen, an internationally recognized investigator into China's covert power, reveals in "Beijing Rules" the arsenal of strategies China has used to exploit Western weakness and position itself as leader in the game of nations. This includes tying market access to political acquiescence, punitive tariffs, online disinformation operations, use of private companies to spy on global users, leveraging vaccines for geopolitical gain, and the crushing of democracy in Hong Kong. Allen shows how Western institutions have bowed to and even enabled Beijing's coercion, and warns that this shift in the new world order poses a threat to freedoms we take for granted.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 03 August 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press

LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying,deception,censorship and repression . . . compelling Daily Telegraph A timely read . . . Chilling . . . Startling . . . A powerful case for more coordinated western intervention Guardian Brilliant Irish Sunday Independent The remarkable story of China s two-decade quest for global dominance.

For several decades China s ascendancy has been supported by an astonishingly broad and deep portfolio of quiet coercion.

Stories of the Chinese Communist Party s authoritarian reach are breathtaking - the gagging of sports stars and huge Western brands; Hollywood self-censorship; infrastructure deals in exchange for political loyalty in multilateral organizations; and of course - communications firms.

But these are just the most visible examples.

Beijing Rules exposes the armoury of strategies with which China has exploited Western weakness to position itself as leader in the game of nations: tying market access to political acquiescence; punitive tariffs; online disinformation operations; use of private companies to spy on global users; leveraging vaccines for geopolitical gain; and the crushing of democracy in Hong Kong.

With these weapons and dextrous manoeuvrings during the global pandemic,China positioned itself to take its place at the apex of world powers.

Bethany Allen,an internationally recognized investigator into China s covert power,shows Western institutions have bowed to and even enabled Beijing s coercion.

As we come reeling out of a global pandemic and eyes are on a new war in Europe, this revealing.

Weight: 548g
Dimension: 164 x 242 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529367799