In this provocative and illuminating account, Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of Chinaβs Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future.
Chinaβs political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimension. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untoldβthe central role of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor delves deeply into Chinaβs inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military and keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Partyβs decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the worldβs only geopolitical rival of the United States and is primed to think the worst of the West.