Hidden Hand; Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world

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In this landmark follow-up to the bestselling Silent Invasion, Hidden Hand exposes the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy. With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideological struggle with the West. Combining a mass of evidence with unique insights, Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg lay bare the nature and extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations across the Western world – in politics, business, universities, think tanks and international institutions such as the UN. This new authoritarian power is using democracy to undermine democracy in pursuit of its global ambitions. Combining meticulous research with compelling prose, Hidden Hand brings to light the Chinese Communist Party's threats to democratic freedoms and national sovereignty across Europe and North America – and show how we might push back against its autocratic influence. Title Page Contents Preface 1 An overview of the CCP's ambitions 2 A Leninist party goes out to the world The CCP's Cold War mentality 'Big external propaganda' The Party rules The united front Double-hatting and double-plating The people and their friends and enemies The 5 per cent rule and quiet diplomacy CCP operating procedures 3 Political elites at the centre: North America Making friends The sad case of John McCallum Influence in Washington D.C. The White House The Department of Enemy Work Canada's Beijing elite 4 Political elites at the centre: Europe Party-to-party diplomacy Grooming Europe The EU-China Friendship Group Britain's 48 Group Club The Italian conversion120 Elite entanglement in France China's friends in Germany 5 Political elites on the periphery Subnational work The curious case of Muscatine Malleable mayors BRI support in Germany's 'countryside' Sister cities 6 The Party-corporate conglomerate The Party and business Comrade billionaire America's 'globalist billionaires' The princelings of Wall Street CCP in the City of London Shaping economic perceptions Yi shang bi zheng The Belt and Road strategy BRI as discourse control 7 Mobilising the Chinese diaspora Qiaowu: overseas Chinese work United Front: modus operandi and structure Threats and harassment Huaren canzheng Huaren canzheng in the United Kingdom 8 The ecology of espionage Influence and spying China's espionage agencies Recruitment methods Think tanks and research institutes A thousand talents Professional associations PLA scientists in Western universities Cyber attacks and influence ops The Huawei case 9 Media: 'Our surname is Party' Media discourse Party above all A global media force Westerners finetune CCP propaganda Crossing the Great Firewall Borrowing boats Cooperation agreements Chinese-language media Buying boats Self-censorship by foreign media 10 Culture as battleground Political culture Poly Culture The China Arts Foundation Cultural monopolisation Crushing cultural deviance Film and theatre censors 'The Marxist view of art and culture' 11 Think tanks and thought leaders 'Eating the CCP's food' The Hong Kong connection Party-linked money in Brussels Other forms of pressure Opinion-makers The Party's domestic think tank expansion 12 Thought management: CCP influence in Western academia Universities as a political battlefield Confucius Institutes Direct pressure Self-censorship Financial dependence Reshaping Chinese studies University cooperation Academic publishing 13 Reshaping global governance 'Champion of multilateralism' Sinicising the United Nations Pushing Taiwan off the international stage Policing goes global Exporting Beijing's definition of 'terrorism' Creating parallel and pseudo-multilateral organisations Human rights with Chinese characteristics Exporting 'internet sovereignty' and standards for new technologies Afterword Acknowledgements Glossary Acronyms Notes Copyright Page