Webinar: Hidden Hand - How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World

Professor Clive Hamilton AM and Dr Mareike Ohlberg.

Organised by AIIA National Office.

With its enormous economic power, China is now a global political and military force engaged in an ideological struggle with the West. Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg outline in their new book, Hidden Hand, the nature and extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in operations across the Western world – in politics, business, universities, think tanks and international institutions such as the UN and WHO. They argue that this new authoritarian power is using democratic systems to undermine democracy in pursuit of its global ambitions.

The book will be available for sale here from June 16.

Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and academic. His influential books include Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, Growth Fetish, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change and Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene. For fourteen years he was the executive director of The Australia Institute, a think tank he founded. A professor at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, he has held visiting academic positions at the University of Oxford, Yale University and Sciences Po. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, The New York Times, Times Higher Education Supplement, Nature and Scientific American.

Mareike Ohlberg is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin. She has an MA in East Asian Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in Chinese Studies from the University of Heidelberg. She has authored a doctoral thesis on Chinese propaganda targeted at foreign audiences, and was a co-author of the landmark report Authoritarian Advance: Responding to China’s Growing Political Influence in Europe. Her articles have been published in The New York Times, The Neue Zuercher Zeitung and various other European media.

This event is online only. After registering, on the day of the event you will receive a follow-up confirmation email containing further details on how to join the webinar. Registrations close at 5:40pm. (If you believe you have not received an email by 5pm please check your junk folder! A reminder will be sent at 5:45pm)

The event will start at 6pm AEST (Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne time, UTC+10).

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