Jennifer Lind’s new book Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny tackles the question of how China has become a major technological power, confounding expectations in much of the West that its authoritarian system would stifle innovation. Using the concept of ‘smart authoritarianism’, she analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party has been able to retain its grip on power even while fostering world-class innovation, in turn allowing China to become a peer competitor to the Unite
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