Description
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a ground-breaking exposé of elite influence operations by Chinas little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of Chinas past, present and future.
Mere years ago, Western governments chose to cooperate with China in the hope that it would liberalize, setting aside concerns about human rights abuses, totalitarian ambitions and espionage. But the axiom of Chinas peaceful rise has been fundamentally challenged by the Chinese Communist Partys authoritarian behavior under Xi Jinping.
How did we get it wrong for so long?
Spies and Lies pierces the Ministry of State Securitys walls of secrecy and reveals how agents of the Chinese Communist Party have spent decades manipulating the Wests attitudes from an Australian prime minister to the US Congress, prominent think tanks and the FBI about Chinas rise. Through interviews with defectors and intelligence officers, classified Chinese intelligence documents and original investigations, the book unmasks dozens of active Chinese intelligence officers along with global MSS fronts, including travel agencies, writers associations, publishing houses, alumni associations, newspapers, a Buddhist temple, a record company and charities.
Spies and Lies is an extraordinary insight into the most successful influence operation in history one which has fooled the West for years and is indispensable reading.
Author: Alex Joske
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781743797990
Language: English
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