02824cam a2200349 i 4500 1165078103 TxAuBib 20230911120000.0 221219s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063057418 hardcover 0063057417 hardcover (OCoLC)1356620867 TOH eng rda TOH YDX Y$5 RNL WIM IHY FNN DYJ COO UAP UOK TxAuBib rda Allen, Bethany, author. Beijing rules : how China weaponized its economy to confront the world / Bethany Allen. First edition. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] xxix, 305 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-288) and index. The rise of China's authoritarian economic statecraft -- The global rush for masks -- Dual-function strategy and China's core interests -- Spies and sister cities -- Zooming in -- The WHO and the Party man -- China adopts Russia's disinformation playbook -- "Chewing gum stuck to the bottom of China's shoe" -- Hong Kong outlaws global activism -- China vaccinates the world -- Building a democratic economic statecraft. Beijing Rules is a superb expose which reveals how China learned to master capitalism which it now wields in its own authoritarian form to achieve global dominance. As Bethany Allen, the China reporter for Axios, reveals, the long-standing belief that free-trade capitalism is a democratizing force--the assumption underlying much of American and Western policy since World War II--is demonstrably false. Capitalism is actually a two-way street: if democratic values can travel in one direction, authoritarianism can travel in the other. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has successfully engineered what Cold War champions believed to be impossible: an unabashedly Communist Party leading a prosperous capitalist state. Written by the first American journalist to expose covert Chinese influence operations in the United States, Beijing Rules includes headline-making stories of western institutions bowing to Beijing's coercion--a glimpse of what American's future might look like should liberal democracy come firmly under the thumb of authoritarian capitalism. Grounded in deep investigative reporting, it sounds the alarm about what we must do to prevent the loss of freedoms we now take for granted. 20230911. Capitalism. China Economic policy 1949- China Foreign economic relations. China Foreign relations. Geopolitics. TXKIP