China Unbound - by Joanna Chiu (Paperback)

About the Book

While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China's dramatic moves to become a dominant power.

Book Synopsis

While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China's dramatic moves to become a dominant power.

As the world's second-largest economy, China is extending its influence across the globe with the complicity of democratic nations. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the political aspects of the multi-billion-dollar "New Silk Road" global investment project to a growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions through "United Front" efforts. Chiu offers readers background on the protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uyghur communities in Turkey, and exposes Beijing's high-tech surveillance and aggressive measures that result in human rights violations against those who challenge its power. The new world disorder documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for global stability, prosperity, and civil rights everywhere.

Review Quotes

"China Unbound reveals Chiu to be an intrepid reporter and cogent analyst of Chinese politics and society ... She has produced a valuable contribution to public debate, illuminating the enigmatic Chinese state which is characterized by repression at home and an ambitious agenda abroad." -- Winnipeg Free Press

"Brilliantly researched and beautifully written." -- The Globe and Mail

"Chiu's book is very well written and researched, with plenty of firsthand accounts from the author. I recommend the book for everyone interested in China." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"Doggedly reported and fiercely argued, this cri de coeur offers essential insight into Beijing's 'aims and activities.'" -- Publishers Weekly

"Joanna Chiu, a reporter for the Toronto Star, provides a powerful, heartfelt account of Chinese immigrants and their fraught encounters with Beijing's United Front Work Department, a lavishly funded government agency that works with the Ministry of State Security. Chiu tells gripping stories of influence operations in such disparate places as Australia, Canada, the US, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Russia ... Chiu's stories demonstrate in human terms just how formidable a task it will be to put the US and China on any kind of cooperative path." -- New York Review of Books