China's changing Party line

Book review of Smokeless War: China's quest for geopolitical dominance

Maybe we are in the middle of a World War! Maybe it sometimes seems peaceful enough because we have not learnt to recognise a war as something other than one that is fought with gunpowder. So while casualties abound, we possibly have little sense of their suffering. A CNBC report in July this year noted the Chinese crackdown on its US-listed tech companies could upset a $2 trillion market. That is about two-thirds the market cap of India’s National Stock Exchange.

 Those developments will hurt though. Just as Covid-19 did in the space of less than two years. For several reasons,