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A review by jackwwang
China Unbound: A New World Disorder by Joanna Chiu
2.0
Thought it would be a more insider baseball Chinawatching account of internal dynamics in Xi's China, but Chiu focuses instead on Chinese influence internationally, describing efforts of the United Front to shape discourse about China in Western countries, and the Belt and Road initiative as more prominent soft projection of Chinese power in the recent decade.
It's interesting and disturbing to learn about the specific tactics China is using to influence especially Chinese diaspora abroad, and Chiu also does not shy away from calling out anti-Asian bigotry as a primary driver of the China discourse in western democracies, but somehow the book falls flat, and never becomes more than a slightly pedantic recitation of events and facts.
It's interesting and disturbing to learn about the specific tactics China is using to influence especially Chinese diaspora abroad, and Chiu also does not shy away from calling out anti-Asian bigotry as a primary driver of the China discourse in western democracies, but somehow the book falls flat, and never becomes more than a slightly pedantic recitation of events and facts.