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Beijing Rules
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Beijing Rules

How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

Harper, 2023 mais...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Eye Opening
  • Hot Topic

Recommendation

The Chinese government has been retrenching further into authoritarianism, and journalist Bethany Allen outlines that recent history in this astute study. Her portrait of China is an unflattering one: She notes that Beijing used the cover of COVID-19 to enact a hostile takeover of Hong Kong and its civil liberties. She says it lied about the pandemic, then crowed about rolling out vaccines that didn’t work particularly well. Allen lived in China for four years, and she reports from the front lines of the rising power’s war on human rights. Her eye-opening text offers little hope that China’s authoritarian instincts will moderate.

Take-Aways

  • China has politicized and weaponized economic sanctions.
  • China’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic called its integrity into question.
  • The Christine Fang case revealed details of China’s espionage program.

About the Author

Bethany Allen is the China reporter at Axios. Fluent in Mandarin, she lives in Taipei.


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