Tag: China

Three Dangerous Men Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare


Free Download Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare by Seth G. Jones, Stephen Graybill, Random House Audio
English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B095J93H5C | 7 hours and 28 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 205 Mb
How three key figures in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran built ruthless irregular warfare campaigns that are eroding American power.
In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals – Russia, Iran, and China – have increasingly adopted irregular warfare: cyber attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage, and disinformation to undermine American power.

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China and Japan Facing History


Free Download China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F. Vogel, Eric Jason Martin, Tantor Audio
English | 2020 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B08377GBYX | M4B@128 kbps | ~22:51:00 + PDF | 345 Mb
China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China’s military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan’s brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve.
Ezra Vogel’s China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history. Throughout much of their past, the two countries maintained deep cultural ties, but China, with its great civilization and resources, had the upper hand. Japan’s success in modernizing in the 19th century and its victory in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War changed the dynamic, putting Japan in the dominant position. The bitter legacy of World War II has made cooperation difficult, despite efforts to promote trade and, more recently, tourism.

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Spies and Lies How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World [Audiobook]


Free Download Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDXZL5MP | 2023 | 8 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Alex Joske
Narrator: James Daniel Burkdoll

Spies and Lies 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 liberalize, 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 behavior under Xi Jinping.

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Beijing Rules How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0B3S2GVY9 | 2023 | 12 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 352 MB
Author: Bethany Allen
Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

An acclaimed journalist on contemporary China lays bare the country’s two-decade quest for global dominance and how the Chinese Communist Party coopted what Western leaders have long considered their most powerful tool in the fight for liberal democracy-capitalism-to expand its illiberal influence worldwide. Bethany Allen, the award-winning China reporter for Axios, shows that by tying profits to political acquiescence the Chinese Communist Party is forcing companies and governments around the world to accept its rules. The coronavirus pandemic marked the first time that the Party deployed its tool kit of economic coercion on an issue directly related to the health and well-being of quite literally every person in the world.

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Battlefield Cyber How China and Russia are Undermining Our Democracy and National Security [Audiobook]


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English | ISBN: 9781493084388 | 2023 | 11 hours and 27 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 326 MB
Author: Michael G. McLaughlin, William J Holstein
Narrator: Steve Menasche

The United States is being bombarded with cyber-attacks. From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate email servers, malicious cyber activities have reached an all-time high. Russia attracts the most attention, but China is vastly more sophisticated. They have a common interest in exploiting the openness of the Internet and social media-and our democracy-to erode confidence in our institutions and to exacerbate our societal rifts to prevent us from mounting an effective response. Halting this digital aggression will require Americans to undertake sweeping changes in how we educate, organize and protect ourselves and to ask difficult questions about how vulnerable our largest technology giants are.

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Assignment China An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C7SPDH8D | 2023 | 17 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 501 MB
Author: Mike Chinoy
Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Nonetheless, American media coverage of China has profoundly influenced U.S. government policy and shaped public opinion not only domestically but also, given the clout and reach of U.S. news organizations, around the world. This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China-from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic-in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists.

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