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.
Author(s): Clive Hamilton
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 400
Tags: Politics, Political Elites, China, Chinese, Subversion, Infiltration, Theft, Treason, World Conquest, Influence, BRI, Belt and Road Initiative, Media Manipulation, Propaganda, Corruption, Lies, Bribery, Blackmail, Elections, Fake News, Censorship, wwg1wga
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
