Contradictions hover over China, a nation that is pursuing world leadership, but at the same time moving further and further away from the world it claim to lead due to its authoritarianism and infringement of human rights. Xi Jinping himself is a paradox: he suffered first-hand the repression and ridicule of the Communist Party apparatus, but once in office, he turned out to be "redder than the red." The ultimate goal of the People's Republic is not economic power. What it seeks is the recovery of its historical place to fulfil the mandate imposed by a nationalism fed with the wounds of the past and failed greatness. At the same time, he expresses a much greater appetite: the challenge to the supremacy of the West, primarily the United States. Beijing distributes easily its millions around the world regardless of whether the beneficiary governments are legitimate or corrupt, or whether they have the possibility of repayment. This is how nowadays is the main creditor of many countries that it extorts in countless ways. Based on an extensive and documented investigation, the author will present a China that is a champion of illegal fishing, owner of a chain of ports all over the planet, and that seeks to conquer it all with technological weapons as Huawei, TikTok and Zoom. He would also unravel the secrets of a regime that, like a sort of Big Brother , watches its citizens with 540 million installed video cameras, and persecutes dissidents globally from clandestine police stations located in dozens of countries. Will the free world be able to control the advance of this autocratic system? Find the answer in the pages of this book.