Hidden Hand (book)

Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping the World is a 2020 book by Australians Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, and is a follow-up of Hamilton's 2018 book Silent Invasion.

The book details the claim of "the Chinese Communist Party's global program of influence and subversion, and the threat it poses to democracy".

[1][2] The book details what the authors describe as "the nature and extent of the Chinese Communist Party's influence operations across the Western world – in politics, business, universities, think tanks and international institutions such as the UN.

[3] Andrew Podger wrote in his book review in The Conversation that while it was extremely detailed, it was not a balanced and scholarly document.

He said that while Hamilton and Ohlberg wanted to respond to Chinese influence by rejecting liberal economics and strengthening democratic politics, what was needed was actually a combination of both.