Every Breath You Take - Featured in The Times and Sunday Times

‘Ian Williams has written a superb and deeply informed study on containing a technological totalitarian state. It is a chilling reminder to all who believe in the rule of law and an open society of China’s present threats to our way of life’

‘Forget Soviet Russia, Xi’s China now echoes 1930s Germany’

‘Fascinating… a really interesting book. China has no private companies… you are always dealing with the Chinese Communist State whenever you deal with them. An unarguable fact’

‘Williams knows his stuff, as an award-winning foreign correspondent reporting for a quarter of a century from Asia with a special interest in China. This is an accessible, valuable, troubling, timely book’

‘one of the year’s most exciting releases’

‘I have been reading a superb new book by the journalist Ian Williams called Every Breath You Take: China’s New Tyranny. The title comes from the 1982 hit song by the band known as The Police, written by its frontman Sting, who later described it as “a nasty little song. Rather evil. It’s about jealousy and surveillance and ownership.” It refers to “every move you make … I’ll be watching you.” A stalker, not a lover; an oppressor, not a partner. In every sense, the CCP regime. Yet not only watching you. Now, in Hong Kong, lecturing you every day’

‘A devastating exposé’

‘A persuasive, alarming wake-up call’

Ian Williams was foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News, based in Russia (1992-1995) and then Asia (1995-2006). He then joined NBC News as Asia Correspondent (2006-2015), when he was based in Bangkok and Beijing. As well as reporting from China over the last 25 years, he has also covered conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Ukraine. He won an Emmy and BAFTA awards for his discovery and reporting on the Serb detention camps during the war in Bosnia. He is currently a doctoral student in the War Studies department at King’s College, London, focusing on cyber issues.