Hidden Hand (book)

Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World is a 2020 book by Australians Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, and is a follow up of Hamilton's 2018 book Silent Invasion. The book details the claim of "the Chinese Communist Party’s global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy".[1]

Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World
AuthorClive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCommunist Party of China, Australia–China relations[1]
GenreNon-fiction
Set inAustralia and the People's Republic of China
PublisherHardie Grant
Publication date
4 May 2020
Pages448
ISBN9781743795576 (Paperback)
Preceded bySilent Invasion: China's influence in Australia[1] 

The book details what the authors describe as "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".[2]

There are criticisms that the book is not balanced: Andrew Podger wrote in his book review in The Conversation that "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".[3]

The Japanese translation was published by Asuka Shinsha Publishing as Invisible Hand: How Is the Chinese Communist Party Reshaping the World? (見えない手 中国共産党は世界をどう作り変えるか; ISBN 9784864108010) on December 25, 2020.[4]

References
  1. "Hidden Hand". Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  2. "Hidden Hand". Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. Andrew Podger. "Hidden Hand". Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  4. "Invisible Hand: How Is the Chinese Communist Party Reshaping the World? (見えない手 中国共産党は世界をどう作り変えるか)". Asuka Shinsha Publishing (in Japanese). December 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
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