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China And Its Embrace of Offensive Cyberespionage
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Kristan Stoddart
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English
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2025
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The West is under challenge from the rise of China as a global power. Cyberespionage has enhanced China’s economy, military, and political influence, and it is now a peer rival to the American-led West across land, sea, air, and space. China can conduct cyberespionage on a scale that no other nation can currently match. Its Belt and Road Initiative is a modern-day Silk Route for both overland and maritime trade.
Under President Xi Jingpin, China is now much closer to parity in conventional forces should it begin hard-power contestation and enter the realm of ‘Thucydides’ Trap’; a belief that a rising power will challenge a hegemon. Chinese cyberespionage is a real long-term challenge to the United States and the West in general. This book discusses what the implications are and what might still be to come.
Under President Xi Jingpin, China is now much closer to parity in conventional forces should it begin hard-power contestation and enter the realm of ‘Thucydides’ Trap’; a belief that a rising power will challenge a hegemon. Chinese cyberespionage is a real long-term challenge to the United States and the West in general. This book discusses what the implications are and what might still be to come.
- Critically examines Chinese uses of cyberespionage past, present, and future.
- Discusses global issues and implications relating to China’s rise.
- Theoretically and technically informed, but empirically driven through micro-macro levels of analysis.
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Dr Kristan Stoddart is an Associate Professor at Swansea University where he is director of the Geopolitical Challenges Research Institute. Previously he was a Reader in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. From 2014 to 2017, Kristan was part of a £1.2 million project examining Cyber Security Lifecycles funded by Airbus Group and the Welsh Government. He also was a member of the UK’s Independent Digital Ethics in Policing Panel for around four years through to 2018. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is the author of eight books and many articles and book chapters.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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List of abbreviations and concepts
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Decoding the dragon: Chinese theories of cyberespionage and cyberwarfare
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Chapter 2 China: critical infrastructure pre-positioning and holding it “at risk”
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Chapter 3 Chinese intellectual property theft: “the greatest transfer of wealth in history”
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Chapter 4 IP theft, military modernization, and China’s rise
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Final conclusions
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Appendix
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 22, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111575513
Hardcover published on:
September 22, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111575100
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316
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2
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1
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Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students of International Relations, Cybersecurity, Security, Political Science, Diplomacy.
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