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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Clive.

Contributor:

Ohlberg, Mareike.

Burton, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--China.

Communism.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ontario : Optimum Publishing International, Incorporated, 2020.

Summary:

Hidden Hand by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg examines the global influence and ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The book delves into how the CCP seeks to reshape international norms and institutions to favor China's rise as a global superpower. Through a detailed analysis, the authors expose the CCP's strategies of deception, subversion, and coercion aimed at undermining democratic values and principles of sovereignty, fairness, and human rights. The text highlights the CCP's Belt and Road Initiative as a tool for economic and political leverage and discusses the complicity of Western elites in accommodating China's growing influence. The authors call for democratic nations to unite in defense of universal rights and transparency, warning of the consequences of passivity in the face of China's ascent. Intended for policymakers, academics, and concerned global citizens, the book emphasizes the urgent need for action to counteract the CCP's hegemonic ambitions. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Title Page

Foreword

Copyright

Contents

Preface

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 Generated by AI.

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Other Format:

Print version: Hamilton, Clive Hidden Hand

ISBN:

9780888903082

0888903081

OCLC:

1295278171