China Control

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the most important books in years.” - #1 NYT Bestselling Author Peter Schweizer “Code Red is a must-read.” – Sen. Marsha Blackburn, TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI “Illuminating…alarming…essential.” – Michael Shellenberger...

What if the greatest weapon of modern power isn't a bomb, a bullet, or an army—but the story you believe? The Propaganda Playbook pulls back the curtain on the hidden machinery of influence, revealing how governments, corporations, financial institutions, media organizations, and powerful individuals shape public perception—and how easily narratives can become accepted as truth.

The “unparalleled master of the historical saga" (Newsweek) and internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world with his trademark epic style in China: The Novel In China: The Novel, Edward Rutherfurd brings his renowned talents to the Middle Kingdom...

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often...

Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the country.

When Communist Party leaders adopted the one-child policy in 1980, they hoped curbing birthrates would help lift China's poorest and increase the country's global stature. But at what cost? Now, as China closes the book on the policy after more than three decades, it faces a population grown too old and too male, with a vastly diminished supply of young workers. Mei Fong has spent years documenting the policy's repercussions on every sector of Chinese society.

Shadow Intelligence Series – China The MSS, PLA Intelligence, and the System of Surveillance That Shapes Power, Control, and Global Influence China has built one of the most advanced intelligence systems in history—one that goes far beyond espionage. This book takes you inside a system where intelligence is not just an инструмент of the state, but the foundation of control, governance, and global strategy. From the Ministry of State Security (MSS) to the intelligence branches of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), from mass surveillance systems to cyber operations and ...

In light of the intertwining logics of military competition and economic interdependence at play in US-China relations, Trading with the Enemy examines how the United States has balanced its potentially conflicting national security and economic interests in its relationship with the People's Republic of China (PRC). To do so, Hugo Meijer investigates a strategically sensitive yet under-explored facet of US-China relations: the making of American export control policy on military-related technology transfers to China since 1979.  

In the twenty-first century, the center of gravity of global power has begun to shift in a quiet yet irreversible way. For decades, the international order appeared structured around a single reference matrix: Western hegemony, economic liberalism, and the institutional architecture that emerged after the Second World War. Yet that equilibrium—once regarded by many as definitive—has entered a phase of profound transformation. In this transitional landscape, China has emerged not only as an economic power, but as an alternative political system that challenges the fundamental assumptions...

For decades, China’s rise was presented as an inevitable story of growth, technological progress, and efficiency. But behind that narrative lies another reality: a silent, patient, and deeply strategic war. China and the Invisible War reveals how the Chinese Communist Party has learned to project power without openly declaring it, to influence without appearing propagandistic, and to transform cooperation, investment, and economic dependency into instruments of political penetration. From Western media and think tanks to critical infrastructure and the green transition, Beijing is not ...

“I spy … a brilliant thriller! Double or Nothing is a clever and utterly compelling addition to the Bond canon.” —Jeffery Deaver, author of Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6’s Double O agents with a license to kill, that blows the world of...

"A high-stakes political thriller with a deeply romantic undertone ... With the way this book ended, I'm eager to find out what happens next." Independent Book Review A chance meeting one night in Shanghai introduces American banker Jack Gold to an Israeli man named Ari, who has a stunning proposition: Help Israel and the United States infiltrate China’s heavily guarded Control Center and address the nation with the truth they deserve to hear. China, a country of 1.4 billion citizens, is an existential threat to itself and the rest of the world. With its news and media censored through ...

China’s rise is real. So are the limits that may define its future. China has become the world’s manufacturing center, a military power in the Indo-Pacific, a technological rival to the United States, and the central strategic challenge of the twenty-first century. But beneath the scale of Beijing’s ambition lies a harder reality: demographic decline, debt, energy dependence, food insecurity, semiconductor vulnerability, maritime exposure, internal surveillance, and the dangerous unresolved question of Taiwan. In China’s Strategic Future, Edward H. Whitmore delivers a cold, direct, ...

America stumbles into an election ...brainwashed by China. During an American presidential campaign, a spooky candidate uses mind control to destroy the American economy. Meanwhile in China, a hapless American grad student has just been ditched by his Chinese flame, who takes off for the American West. When the CIA asks our unlucky but intrepid hero to hotfoot it home to investigate the financial collapse, he must overcome feelings of rejection, snide remarks from friends, and assailants who want him dead. He must come home to wake up a nation and bring the malicious malefactors to justice....

Enjoy this compelling spy thriller series with loveable guy and girl next door characters. A madman seizes power in China ...and only America can stop him. In this blockbuster novel of first love and last resorts, the CIA must assemble an unlikely team of young scientists and pilots to infiltrate the Middle Kingdom and take down the ruthless megalomaniac who has set his sights on America. Join forces with America’s next hero as he uses his powers of deduction and iron will to overcome all odds, save his girl, and rescue a grateful nation. Termed “iconoclastic” and “an epic adventure...

From a brilliant Brookings Institution expert, an “important” (The Wall Street Journal) and “penetrating historical and political study” (Nature) of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of...

Descend into the center of current-day China under the helm of Xi Jinping, a persona whose decisions have ignited worldwide debates and dialogues. In "Xi Jinping's China," we unpeel the complex layers of the Chinese political terrain, presenting a stirring analysis of the country's ascendancy, its global clout, and the disputes that characterize it. Uncover the nuances of Xi's governance, from his audacious Belt and Road Initiative to the dilemmas birthed by the Uyghur crisis in Xinjiang. Discover how he has morphed China into a surveillance empire and how the Chinese Communist Party clamps...

‘Impressive … Fascinating’ Sunday Times ‘An authoritative history’ Financial Times ‘Gripping and richly researched’ Rana Mitter A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian...

La visión sobre China de una de las grandes figuras de la política internacional en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y Premio Nobel de la Paz.

The book that finally makes critical minerals, rare earths, and resource geopolitics understandable, so you can read every headline like a specialist and make decisions with real confidence. In 2025, an auto-parts buyer in the Midwest found themselves on a conference call with a chemist, a lawyer, and a logistics manager, all trying to answer one question: where does the neodymium in our magnets actually come from, and what happens if that supply slows down. That single scene, repeated across automakers, wind-turbine builders, and defense contractors, is the real starting point of this book...