Red zone: China’s challenge and Australia’s future. Peter Hartcher. 2021.

What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China, and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for influence - over trade and defence, media and politics.

Australia has now woken up to China’s challenge, from passing foreign interference laws to banning Huawei fom our 5G network. But at what cost? Will we see a further slump to relations? How best to protectmour security, economy and identity?