Introduction -- Introduction -- The Year of the Tiger -- In This Whirlpool of Chaotic Jumble, ‘Your World’ Is Also ‘My World’ -- Focus: The Twentieth party congress -- The Twentieth Party Congress: A Primer -- A Matter of Perspective: Insider Accounts of Xi Jinping and the Twentieth Party Congress -- Ghosts of Mao and Deng -- Chapter 1 — Economy and supply chains -- The Chinese Economy: Bursting Bubbles, Terminal Troubles? -- The Untold Story of Chinese Banking and Why It Matters -- Coal Supply Chains: No Bright Outlook for Australia -- Chapter 2 — Climate problem, tech solutions -- Supercharging China: Cars, Batteries, and Lithium -- China’s ‘Green Steel’: Unchaining from Australia -- Focus: Women in Chains -- What Have We Learned from ‘the Woman in Chains’? -- Violence against Women: Can the Law Help? -- The Communist Party of China: Where Are the Women? -- Chapter 3 — Erasing identities -- (Identity) Politics in Command: Xi Jinping in Xinjiang -- Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong -- Chapter 4 — Vive la résistance -- A Year of Protests, Ceremonies, and Surprises -- Double-speak as LGBTQI+ resistance -- Chapter 5 — Taiwan: Trouble in the First Island Chain -- Semiconductors, Supply Chains, and the Fate of Taiwan -- Buckle Up: Pelosi’s Visit and the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis -- Psyops and |