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Pandemic Authoritarianism, an insightful and unyielding academic exposé, analyses how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used the coronavirus pandemic as an instrument of geopolitical warfare to censor information, silence critics, and reshape the balance of power in the world through censorship, propaganda, surveillance, and strategic diplomacy. The book explores the causes of COVID-19, the authoritarian cover-up by the CCP, and the international cooperation that enabled the crisis to worsen into a global disaster using forensic analysis and critical political insight. Drawing on political theory, including Lukes' dimensions of power, Gramsci's cultural hegemony, Chomsky's propaganda model, and Foucault's biopolitics - This work illustrates the way the pandemic was being utilized as an instrument of warfare to further consolidate dictatorships, influence global organizations, and weaken the foundation of democracy. It exposes the terrifying intersection of political opportunism and public health emergencies by challenging the CCP's crisis nationalism, digital authoritarianism, vaccine diplomacy, and economic coercion. This book is not merely a study of a virus; it is a daring challenge to the global rise of autocratic power concealed behind humanitarian rhetoric, with more than 20 carefully argued chapters and extensively referenced sources. Scholars, decision-makers, journalists, and readers interested in freedom, openness, and the future of global order should all read this book.

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