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    • How Xi's Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World
    • By: Kevin Rudd
    • Narrated by: Kevin Rudd
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage.

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    • China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
    • By: Michael Pillsbury
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,545 ratings
    • One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....

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    • The Fight for Our Future
    • By: Maria Ressa
    • Narrated by: Maria Ressa, Rebecca Mozo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney.

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,539 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 686 ratings
    • In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan....

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    • Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
    • By: Keyu Jin
    • Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....

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    • The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
    • By: Chun Han Wong
    • Narrated by: Feodor Chin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • From one of the most admired reporters covering China today comes a vital new account of the life and political vision of Xi Jinping, the authoritarian leader of the People’s Republic whose hard-edged tactics have set the rising superpower on a collision with Western liberal democracies.

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    • The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China
    • By: Kevin Rudd
    • Narrated by: Kevin Rudd, Rafe Beckley
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....

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    • A World History
    • By: Odd Arne Westad
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 22 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 422 ratings
    • In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe....

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    • A New History
    • By: Christopher Goscha
    • Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
    • Length: 23 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • A major achievement, Vietnam offers the grand narrative of the country's complex past and the creation of the modern state of Vietnam....

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    • How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff - contributor
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • A leading national security expert lays out how the U. S. can keep its place as the world’s top superpower in the face of a rising China....

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    • Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look inside North Korea
    • By: Jang Jin-sung
    • Narrated by: Daniel York
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,195 ratings
    • In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il....

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    • The Coming Conflict with China
    • By: Hal Brands, Michael Beckley
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century....

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    • By: Elizabeth C. Economy
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • An economic and military superpower with twenty percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to "lead in the reform of the global governance system" suggest that he has just such an ambition....

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    • Inside the World's Most Secret State
    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching....

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    • My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite
    • By: Suki Kim
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 934 ratings
    • A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign....

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    • Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
    • By: Andrei Lankov
    • Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 602 ratings
    • Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been....

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    • Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
    • By: Jim Sciutto
    • Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 824 ratings
    • CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....

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    • How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
    • By: Susan L. Shirk
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. To facilitate the country's economic ascendance, and to prevent a backlash, they reassured the outside world of China's peaceful intentions. Then, as Susan Shirk shows, something changed....

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    • The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
    • By: Michael Wood
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.

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