Every Breath You Take - Featured in The Times and Sunday Times
eBook - ePub

Every Breath You Take - Featured in The Times and Sunday Times

China’s New Tyranny

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Every Breath You Take - Featured in The Times and Sunday Times

China’s New Tyranny

About this book

'one of the year's most exciting releases' - The HeraldChina is building the world's first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology.Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale, bullied Western tech companies and academics (though many have been willing accomplices) and intimidated critics worldwide. In doing so, it has become a model for aspiring dictators everywhere.Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, showing how it has been driven by the enigmatic Xi Jinping, now effectively president for life, and how it impacts the daily lives of Chinese citizens, particularly dissidents and those from ethnic minorities. Supporting interviews and first-hand accounts from those whose lives have been turned upside down or worse highlight the chilling and ruthless efficiency with which the government can now act.The book also considers the wider implications for the rest of the world. How to deal with an increasingly strident, aggressive Beijing is one of the biggest challenges facing the West in what has become a technological Cold War.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Map
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction: ‘Love the Party, Protect the Party’
  8. 1 Xinjiang – Ground Zero
  9. 2 Mass Surveillance
  10. 3 Big Brother Logs On
  11. 4 He Who Controls the Past
  12. 5 Not So Corporate China
  13. 6 The West’s (Often Willing) Enablers
  14. 7 From Influence to Interference
  15. 8 Bulldozers Down the New Silk Road
  16. 9 Cyber Smash and Grab
  17. 10 To the Digital Barricades
  18. 11 The Communist Party Virus
  19. Epilogue: Rising to the China Challenge
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Plates