With the falling of the dusk” by Stan Grant

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Napoleon said “China is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”

Offering a personal insight into the machinations of the post Maoist regime where China, committed to Mao’s “Two Whatever’s” i.e. uphold whatever policy Chairman Moa made and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave, is shaking the world.

Chairman Mao may have given China back its dignity, but it is Deng Xiaoping, who has made China rich. Spending more on domestic security than external security, it is a party that needs a permanent enemy, for it rules by fear. Despite the fault line of distrust that runs through China, Den Xiaoping has opened China to the world and set its course to become the most powerful economy on the planet. In two decades, China has lifted more than a billion people out of poverty, getting rich while refusing to become free.

The guiding philosophy of PRC’s foreign policy in the Deng Xiaoping era is “Hide your capacity, bide your time.”

The author, Stan Grant, is one of Australia’s most experienced international journalists, with a personal understanding of China (covering the British handover of Hong Kong), Northern Ireland (covering the conflict between the Irish and Catholics), South Africa, Middle East (covering the Taliban when the music stopped), Greece, and North Korea. Referenced also are Georg Hegel and Mikhail Gorbachev as political philosophers who had a very important part in history.

Grant captures a moment in time, when democracy is retreating, and authoritarianism is growing. His knowledge as an Australian Aboriginal gives him a unique and sympathetic perspective on the situation many peoples find themselves in, in a world of momentous upheaval and enormous geopolitical shifts. A situation made more urgent by the global pandemic and let by the current Chinese President, Xi Jinping. This book confronts the challenges of today and investigates ways forward.

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