Beijing Rules
How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
- 416 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Beijing Rules
How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
About this book
An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country's two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy—capitalism—to expand its illiberal influence worldwide.
Bethany Allen, the award-winning China reporter for Axios, shows that by tying profits to political acquiescence the Chinese Communist Party is forcing companies and governments around the world to accept its rules. The coronavirus pandemic marked the first time that the Party deployed its tool kit of economic coercion on an issue directly related to the health and well-being of quite literally every person in the world. But Western democracies aren’t helpless victims in Beijing’s game. The West created the conditions for the rise of authoritarian capitalism by divorcing political values from market structures.
Written by one of the first American journalists to expose China's covert influence operations in the United States, Beijing Rules includes headline-making stories of Western institutions bowing to Beijing’s pressure—a glimpse of what America’s future may look like should liberal democracy come firmly under the thumb of authoritarian capitalism. Grounded in deep investigative reporting, it sounds the alarm about what we must do to prevent the loss of freedoms we now take for granted.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Rise of China’s Authoritarian Economic Statecraft
- 2. The Global Rush for Masks
- 3. Dual-Function Strategy and China’s Core Interests
- 4. Spies and Sister Cities
- 5. Zooming In
- 6. WHO and the Party Man
- 7. China Adopts Russia’s Disinformation Playbook
- 8. “Chewing Gum Stuck to the Bottom of China’s Shoe”
- 9. Hong Kong Outlaws Global Activism
- 10. China Vaccinates the World
- 11. Building a Democratic Economic Statecraft
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher