China Unbound
- Author Joanna Chiu
- Narrator Nancy Wu
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 5 October 2021
- Run Time 10 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Geopolitics.
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What to expect
While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China’s dramatic moves to become the world’s dominant power.
As the second-largest economy, China is now extending its influence across the globe. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the complicity of democratic nations, to a new colonialism coming from its multibillion-dollar “New Silk Road” initiative, to its growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions.
Chiu transports readers to protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uighur communities in Turkey, exposing Beijing’s use of high-tech police surveillance and aggressive human-rights violations against those who challenge its power. With increasingly close ties between authoritarian states, the new world order documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for prosperity and freedom everywhere.
Critics Review
“Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing’s ‘aims and activites.’”
“An eye-opening global tour of the growing influence of the new superpower. A fascinating, illuminating book.”
“A devastating analysis of the Chinese police state gone global. China Unbound is essential to understanding the fragility of peace in the twenty-first century.”
“A sweeping, timely, and nuanced read for anyone who cares about the global rise of authoritarianism.”
“A vivid, perspicacious, and ultimately disillusioned book about the current direction of China that delivers an urgent and much-needed caution against xenophobia toward Chinese people at a time of growing tensions with a new superpower.”
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