Hidden Hand
Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World
1st Edition
Published on 2. July 2020
320 pages
978-0-86154-011-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' The Times
'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian
The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image.
Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street, Hollywood, think tanks, universities and the Chinese diaspora are being manipulated with money, pressure and privilege. Hidden Hand reveals the myriad ways the CCP is fulfilling its dream of undermining liberal values and controlling the world.
'This is a remarkable book with a chilling message.' Guardian
The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image.
Its decades-long infiltration of the West threatens democracy, human rights, privacy, security and free speech. Throughout North America and Europe, political and business elites, Wall Street, Hollywood, think tanks, universities and the Chinese diaspora are being manipulated with money, pressure and privilege. Hidden Hand reveals the myriad ways the CCP is fulfilling its dream of undermining liberal values and controlling the world.
Reviews / Votes
'A remarkable book with a chilling message... The book's convincing message is plain... Everyone must stay on their guard.' -- Will Hutton, Guardian 'Revelatory... A detailed and necessary examination.' * Sunday Times * 'Hidden Hand is heavily sourced, crisply written and deeply alarming.' * The Times * 'Hidden Hand should be required reading for our diplomats, intelligence analysts, military officers and businesspeople.' * The Australian * 'An in-depth explanation of how China conducts its operations to gain important knowledge - ranging from tech secrets to financial information.' * International Business Times * 'It takes courage to prod somnolent liberal democracies out of their complacent and dangerous incomprehension of the CCP. We are in Hamilton's and Ohlberg's debt.' -- Journal of Democracy '[Hidden Hand] should be required reading for anyone working in government and policy, the private sector, or media - really, for anyone with a stake in resisting the shadowy machinations of a totalitarian regime that seeks to exert its will on free societies.' * National Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
8,58 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-86154-011-2 (9780861540112)
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Clive Hamilton | Mareike Ohlberg
Hidden Hand
Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World
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07/2020
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Clive Hamilton is an Australian academic and the author of Silent Invasion, a national bestseller revealing China's influence operations in Australia. He has written for the Guardian, New York Times, Foreign Affairs and THES.
Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund. While at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, she co-authored the landmark report 'Authoritarian Advance: Responding to China's Growing Political Influence in Europe'. She has written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow in the Asia Program of the German Marshall Fund. While at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, she co-authored the landmark report 'Authoritarian Advance: Responding to China's Growing Political Influence in Europe'. She has written for the New York Times, Foreign Affairs and Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- 1 An overview of the CCP's ambitions
- 2 A Leninist party goes out to the world
- The CCP's Cold War mentality
- 'Big external propaganda'
- The Party rules
- The united front
- Double-hatting and double-plating
- The people and their friends and enemies
- The 5 per cent rule and quiet diplomacy
- CCP operating procedures
- 3 Political elites at the centre: North America
- Making friends
- The sad case of John McCallum
- Influence in Washington D.C.
- The White House
- The Department of Enemy Work
- Canada's Beijing elite
- 4 Political elites at the centre: Europe
- Party-to-party diplomacy
- Grooming Europe
- The EU-China Friendship Group
- Britain's 48 Group Club
- The Italian conversion
- Elite entanglement in France
- China's friends in Germany
- 5 Political elites on the periphery
- Subnational work
- The curious case of Muscatine
- Malleable mayors
- BRI support in Germany's 'countryside'
- Sister cities
- 6 The Party-corporate conglomerate
- The Party and business
- Comrade billionaire
- America's 'globalist billionaires'
- The princelings of Wall Street
- CCP in the City of London
- Shaping economic perceptions
- Yi shang bi zheng
- The Belt and Road strategy
- BRI as discourse control
- 7 Mobilising the Chinese diaspora
- Qiaowu:overseas Chinese work
- United Front: modus operandi and structure
- Threats and harassment
- Huaren canzheng
- Huaren canzheng in the United Kingdom
- 8 The ecology of espionage
- Influence and spying
- China's espionage agencies
- Recruitment methods
- Think tanks and research institutes
- A thousand talents
- Professional associations
- PLA scientists in Western universities
- Cyber attacks and influence ops
- The Huawei case
- 9 Media: 'Our surname is Party'
- Media discourse
- Party above all
- A global media force
- Westerners finetune CCP propaganda
- Crossing the Great Firewall
- Borrowing boats
- Cooperation agreements
- Chinese-language media
- Buying boats
- Self-censorship by foreign media
- 10 Culture as battleground
- Political culture
- Poly Culture
- The China Arts Foundation
- Cultural monopolisation
- Crushing cultural deviance
- Film and theatre censors
- 'The Marxist view of art and culture'
- 11 Think tanks and thought leaders
- 'Eating the CCP's food'
- The Hong Kong connection
- Party-linked money in Brussels
- Other forms of pressure
- Opinion-makers
- The Party's domestic think tank expansion
- 12 Thought management: CCP influence in Western academia
- Universities as a political battlefield
- Confucius Institutes
- Direct pressure
- Self-censorship
- Financial dependence
- Reshaping Chinese studies
- University cooperation
- Academic publishing
- 13 Reshaping global governance
- 'Champion of multilateralism'
- Sinicising the United Nations
- Pushing Taiwan off the international stage
- Policing goes global
- Exporting Beijing's definition of 'terrorism'
- Creating parallel and pseudo-multilateral organisations
- Human rights with Chinese characteristics
- Exporting 'internet sovereignty' and standards for new technologies
- Afterword
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Acronyms
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
