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Beijing Rules
How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World
Harper,
2023
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From the book BEIJING RULES: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen, Copyright (c) 2023 by Bethany Allen. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
ISBN: 9780063057418
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780063057418
Pages: 336
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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.
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About the Author
Bethany Allen is the China reporter at Axios. Fluent in Mandarin, she lives in Taipei.
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