Hidden Hand

'Legal challenge halts Canadian, U.S. and U.K. release of book critical of Chinese Communist Party' - Robert Fife. That said it all. The hands of the Chinese Communist Party were going on the offence. The 48 Group Club, a China friendly group of former UK ambassadors and Prime Ministers, were embarrassed by their connections to a Club founded by key members of the Chinese Communist Party of Britain who's chair Stephen Perry suggested that China's approach to world order and rule was superior to democracy and the UK should embrace them. Asked if he believed the lawsuit was an effort by the Chinese government to stop the publication of his book, Mr. Hamilton said: 'I have no evidence of that, although it should be noted that the Chinese government has used lawfare in the past.' Lawfare is the use of legal action as part of a campaign against a target. Governments around the world are in the early stages of a repositioning of power, as China rises and the United States is drawn into di