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...

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...

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.

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.

This is the story of the world's biggest drug deal. In the nineteenth century, the British East India Company operated a triangle of trade that straddled the globe, running from India to China to Britain. From India to China, they took opium. From China to Britain, they took tea. From Britain to...

**Narrated by the Author** National security strategist and former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O’Neill exposes how nefarious cybercriminals relentlessly attempt to access your data and wallet, and arms you with his proven tactics for spotting and neutralizing cyberthreats to protect...

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.

In Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control, Dali L. Yang scrutinizes China's emergency response to the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, delving into the government's handling of epidemic information and the decisions that influenced the scale and scope of the outbreak. Yang's research reveals that China's health experts had an excellent head start when they implemented a health emergency action program to respond to the outbreak at the end of December 2019. 

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...

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...

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.  

The order had valid codes. It had no sender. For thirty-five years, something on the floor of the Atlantic watched the American military. In October 2029, the Pentagon struck it. It survived. Now it is answering. Communications blackouts roll across U.S. bases on a schedule no one set. A crypto key at Kings Bay comes back rewritten, not broken. A Chinese submarine captain receives an order through an authority block that doesn’t exist and must decide whether to obey. Two satellites that should be dead begin to move, and every time they do, another part of America’s command network goes ...

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....

“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...

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...

Travel to China. Find out the facts about this country in Asia.

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...

“Highlights that influenza is still a real and present threat and demonstrates the power and limitations of modern medicine.” —The Wall Street Journal “A surprisingly compelling and accessible story of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is timely and interesting, engaging and...