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    • By: Lesley Downer
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Lesley Downer presents the dramatic sweep of Japanese history and the larger-than-life individuals—from emperors descended from the Sun Goddess to warlords, samurai, merchants, court ladies, women warriors, geisha, and businessmen—who shaped this extraordinary modern society.

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    • A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984
    • By: G.B.S. Sidhu
    • Narrated by: Adwait Karambelkar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The author, a former Special Secretary of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) of the Cabinet Secretariat, examines a series of interconnected events that led to the rise of the Khalistan movement.

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    • How Tuberculosis Shaped History
    • By: Vidya Krishnan
    • Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world....

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    • The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World
    • By: Dexter Roberts
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The untold story of how restrictive policies are preventing China from becoming the world's largest economy....

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    • Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
    • By: Patrick Winn
    • Narrated by: Patrick Winn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux....

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    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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    • The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From best-selling author Robert D. Kaplan comes an examination of the Indian Ocean region - an area that will become crucial to global politics as the 21st century continues....

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    • A Warning to America
    • By: Col. Grant Newsham
    • Narrated by: Axel Bosley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A warning about America’s impending war with China. The conflict is coming, a former Marine intelligence officer shows, and we’re not ready. But it’s not too late to prepare....

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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: 22-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable....

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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: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 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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    • A Concise History of the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate
    • By: Julian Richards
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Pakistan's ISI provides an up-to-date and detailed introduction to the ISI and its historical evolution.

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    • Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
    • By: George Magnus
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • Will China rule the world, or will its dream turn into a nightmare? George Magnus, the trusted economic commentator on China, provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued rise....

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    • The Great Global Rebalancing
    • By: Samir Puri
    • Narrated by: Samir Puri
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The receding of Western power is speeding up, shaking the ground under our feet. In Westlessness, Dr Puri vividly demonstrates how in demographic, economic, military and cultural terms, we are hurtling into a far more diverse global future....

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    • The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
    • By: Kishore Mahbubani
    • Narrated by: Aaron Abano
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • The defining geopolitical contest of the 21st century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable....

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    • A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
    • By: Xinran Xue
    • Narrated by: Crystal Yu, Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-24
    • Language: English
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    • The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today...

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    • Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University
    • By: Daniel A. Bell
    • Narrated by: Wyntner Woody
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This audiobook provides an inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China’s political system....

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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: 16-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • From Mao to Now
    • By: David Shambaugh
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 19-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping....

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    • By: Steve Tsang, Olivia Cheung
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Over the course of the last half dozen years, China's supreme leader Xi Jinping has made extraordinary changes which have profound implications not only for the Chinese people but nations throughout the world.

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    • The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy
    • By: Peter Martin
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • China's Civilian Army charts China's transformation from an isolated and impoverished communist state to a global superpower from the perspective of those on the front line: China's diplomats. They give a rare perspective on the greatest geopolitical drama of the last half century....

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