Who is hidden hand

As Hamilton and Ohlberg say, the pretence that party and state are two different spheres has been dropped under Xi. China and the Chinese Communist party are coterminous — and every enterprise in China, state-owned or private, is surveilled by a Communist party committee. All western states have until the last few months chosen to look the other way. The consensus has been that you have to engage with it. Britain has been no slouch. Hidden Hand reveals the myriad ways the CCP is fulfilling its dream of undermining liberal values and controlling the world.

We are in Hamilton's and Ohlberg's debt. Oneworld Publications. Search: Search. China is a growing threat to democracy and liberal values around the world. This is a one-direction diagram and assumes a totally coordinated strategy. Similarly on the receiving end, the authors describe not only the groups and organisations in the West they claim are being influenced, but many of the individuals involved.

Despite this, the book is not a balanced, scholarly document. The narrative centres on a single-minded Communist Party that has always sought a Leninist world and is now taking advantage of its increased economic power to advance that objective more effectively.

There is little recognition of the huge shifts in Chinese economic, social and strategic policies over the past 50 years, or of the scale of the changes to its institutional arrangements and the role of government. The authors also do not allow those in the West who they claim have been successfully and naively influenced the opportunity to respond, let alone to present evidence of their influence in the other direction.

We certainly in Europe should seek good relations with China, but never at the expense of our security, our interests, or our democratic values. There are limits, and we must learn to see them, set them, and stick to them. Good fences make good neighbors. For that, the first step is to gain a better knowledge of the CCP, its strategies, resources, and methods. Herein lies the importance of Hidden Hand.

Indeed, anyone who deals with the PRC in any capacity should read it. If now and then the authors read too much into a word or deed, we ignore their analysis and warnings at our peril. It takes courage to prod somnolent liberal democracies out of their complacent and dangerous incomprehension of the CCP.

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