Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text.Security cameras and facial recognition technology are on the rise in China. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. * Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. * Very Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition.

Dust cover is intact pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. * Like New: An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. A brand-new, unused, unread copy in perfect condition. We based our evaluation of book condition on the following criteria: What does China want? And can we stop China from taking it? In his eye-opening bestseller, Kai Strittmatter asks some long-overdue questions. On every continent, governments are snapping up Beijing's 'Operating System for Dictators', while Western writers, publishers, even major brands and sports stars are forced to apologise for speaking out about Hong Kong, Tibet or the Muslim Uighurs. Ask awkward questions about the virus or the 're-education camps' in Xinjiang, and you could simply disappear.Īnd the Party's plans go beyond China. Joke about how President Xi looks like a dumpling, and you might end up in jail. Run a red light, and the Party will know. In shiny new 'Smart Cities', armies of algorithms and cameras mine data from every human action. A generation later, powerful new technologies watch and control - 'harmonise' - the masses. At Tiananmen Square, tanks and bullets put an end to disagreement.

That's the story they tell in China, and few would disagree.įew would dare. Beijing took action, Western democracies dithered. almost everything we thought we knew about China is wrong'ĭuring the Covid-19 pandemic, it took China ten days to build a 1,000-bed hospital.

We have been harmonized