In this book, Ian Williams tells the terrifying story of China’s vampire economy and the single-minded and ruthless policy of the Party to bend economics and business to its own will. All this is part of realising President Xi Jinping’s ambition of China becoming the world’s pre-eminent economic, technological and military power.

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China’s aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West – but the rest of the world – ignores at its peril.

Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population. The book also considers the wider implications for all of us, and how we are all tracked, monitored and followed with every click, view and search we make.