18 Best politics books like Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske

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Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

By: Alex Joske

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a ground-breaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s l…

If you liked the politics plot in Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury

1. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

By: Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pillsbury's The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • international relations
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal by David E. Hoffman

2. The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

By: David E. Hoffman

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Handcomes the riveting story of a sp… read more

Similar categories in David E. Hoffman's The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West by Calder Walton

3. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

Similar categories in Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
  • china
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4. Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

By: Alex Joske

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a ground-breaking exposé of elite influence operations by China’s l… read more

Similar categories in Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • international relations
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • journalism
Cover of The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy

5. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • politics
  • military fiction
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

6. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

Similar categories in Chris Miller's Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • china
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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7. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Ackerman's 2054 book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • politics
  • military fiction
Cover of Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David H. Petraeus

8. Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

By: David H. Petraeus

4.06

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Two leading authorities—an acclaimed historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strate… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
"A recurring theme of this book is that money spent on deterrence is seldom wasted, especially when considered against the costs incurred when the deterrence fails."

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

"Hybrid warfare particularly appeals to China and Russia, since they are much more able to control the information their populaces receive than are their Western adversaries. A 1999 book, Unrestricted…"

-David H. Petraeus, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

9. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
Cover of The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap) by Rush Doshi

10. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order (Bridging the Gap)

By: Rush Doshi

4.04

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial J… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

11. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

By: Scott J. Shapiro

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more

Similar categories in Scott J. Shapiro's Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"

-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Cover of China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter

12. China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

By: Frank Dikötter

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In China After Mao , award-winning author Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China under the… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan by Mick Ryan

13. White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan

By: Mick Ryan

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This book "is entertaining, thought-provoking and quite possibly prescient. Not just an engaging ta… read more

Similar categories in Mick Ryan's White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • politics
  • military fiction
  • china
Cover of Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China by Hal Brands

14. Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

By: Hal Brands

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and urgent analysis of the U.S.–China rivalry. It has become conventional wisdom that… read more

Similar categories in Hal Brands's Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • international relations
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World by Bethany Allen

15. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World

By: Bethany Allen

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the most acclaimed journalists on contemporary China lays bare the country's two decade ques… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Allen's Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • international relations
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Chun Han Wong

16. Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

By: Chun Han Wong

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most admired reporters covering China today, a vital new account of the life and po… read more

Similar categories in Chun Han Wong's Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • international relations
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin

17. Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control

By: Josh Chin

4.16

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Where is the line between digital utopia and digital police state? Surveillance State tells the gr… read more

Similar categories in Josh Chin's Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

18. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Cox's Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
Cover of Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

19. Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

By: Thomas Rid

4.15

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deceptio… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Rid's Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare book and Alex Joske's Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

  • espionage
  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • military fiction
  • nonfiction
Cover of Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise by Susan L. Shirk

20. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

By: Susan L. Shirk

4.11

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A sobering, penetrating, and illuminating examination of Chinese-US relations, what has contributed… read more

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  • international relations
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • china

18 Best history books like Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World by Alex Joske

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World

Alex Joske

3.83

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13 Top audiobook books like Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future by Chun Han Wong

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

2054

Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

Desmond Shum

3.91

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