Red Roulette. An insider’s story of wealth, power, corruption, and vengeance in today’s China. Desmond Shum. 2021. ISBN 9781982156176.\u00a0 This is a telling book. Much of what we have seen China do to its own people, Hong Kong and recently expats falls into place.\u00a0 The regime exists to protect the well-being of those in power, their relatives and no one else.\u00a0 The author believed in their system, followed all the “hidden” rules, grew wealth but ultimately lost everything, and his own wife’s life to the regime. Your eyes will be opened to what really goes on in China and how things get done. It is a very readable book that would make any business person think long and hard about doing business in China.\u00a0 One can only think that Hong Kong is in for an inexorable take over in all things to benefit the mainland regime.\u00a0 I would also support ensuing that China does not grab Taiwan in some way.\u00a0 Canada and the US can no longer pussy foot around this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a telling book. Much of what we have seen China do to its own people, Hong Kong and recently expats falls into place.\u00a0 The regime exists to protect the well-being of those in power, their relatives and no one else.\u00a0 The author believed in their system, followed all the “hidden” rules, grew wealth but ultimately lost everything, and his own wife’s life to the regime. Your eyes will be opened to what really goes on in China and how things get done. It is a very readable book that would make any business person think long and hard about doing business in China.\u00a0 One can only think that Hong Kong is in for an inexorable take over in all things to benefit the mainland regime.\u00a0 I would also support ensuing that China does not grab Taiwan in some way.\u00a0 Canada and the US can no longer pussy foot around this.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,5],"tags":[131,2485,3335,3162,2747,30,3334,1033],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}