Spies and Lies

How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

Spies and Lies
Alex Joske
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Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 272pg
5 Oct 2022 AU
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9781743797990
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Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China' s 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 China' s past, present and future. Mere years ago, Western governments chose to cooperate with China in the hope that it would liberalise, setting aside concerns about human rights abuses, totalitarian ambitions and espionage. But the axiom of China' s ' peaceful rise' has been fundamentally challenged by the Chinese Communist Party' s authoritarian behaviour under Xi Jinping. How did we get it wrong for so long? Spies and Lies pierces the Ministry of State Security' s walls of secrecy and reveals how agents of the Chinese Communist Party have spent decades manipulating the West' s attitudes - from an Australian prime minister to the US Congress, prominent think tanks and the FBI - about China' s 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.
"In an astonishing feat of precocity, Alex Joske has made himself one of the world' s leading analysts of the Chinese Communist Party. His work on the CCP' s united front system of overseas influence, and on how leading western universities have been unwittingly assisting China' s military to build sophisticated weapons systems, has attracted the attention of powerful lawmakers, advisers, journalists and intelligence agencies. The US Congress has passed legislation based directly on his work. Not bad for a twenty-something. Naturally, Alex has become a target of Beijing, banned from the country of his mother' s birth and relentlessly trolled. In short, Alex Joske is a star of China studies in Australia, a youthful independent scholar with a global reach that is the envy of established professors. There are only a handful of researchers in Australia of whom it can be said their work has a truly global impact. Alex is one of them. " - Professor Clive Hamilton, author of Silent Invasion
Alex Joske was the youngest-ever analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and is known for breaking open new fields of research through meticulous Chinese-language investigations grounded in authoritative and independently verifiable sources. His research in the hotly contested field of Chinese Communist Party influence and espionage efforts has withstood intense scrutiny and earned the respect and interest of governments and policymakers globally. He lives in Canberra, Australia.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781743797990
Published: 5 Oct 2022
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 272

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