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India in a High-Stakes, High-Risk China Clash April 25, 2025

Indian acquiescence to US trade war demands to isolate China will backfire badly on Delhi in more ways than one ...

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The Once and Future China April 25, 2025

How Will Change Come to Beijing? ...

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Europe Has Come to a Fork in the Road on Trade April 25, 2025

President Trump’s strong tariffs on Chinese goods effectively suspends most Sino-American trade. China now faces an enormous glut of telecommunications and network-connected equipment, such as 5G equipment, fiber optic cables, telecom parts and vario...

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Europe

China Faces Rise of 'Rat People' April 24, 2025

Brazil’s Lula Says He Doesn’t Want to Choose Between China and U.S. April 24, 2025

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U.S. Intel: Tren de Aragua in League With Maduro April 24, 2025

While some leaks of classified docs say the notorious Tren de Aragua gang and Venezuela's strongman are not working together, contradicting President Trump's contention, but new info from the FBI and ODNI provides more evidence of the links between t...

Personnel Problems Are Becoming Personal for Xi April 24, 2025

A lack of viable challenger suggests that Xi Jinping will remain in power, even if he is more vulnerable today, and his power more curtailed, than in years past....

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How China–India Relations Will Shape Asia and the Global Order April 24, 2025

The China–US relationship is widely regarded as the defining geopolitical issue of the 21st century. But relations between China and India arguably hold greater long-term significance for the future of Asia and the global order. ...

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By Plan or Luck, Trump Landed His First Blow on China April 24, 2025

With a single Truth, President Donald Trump’s global trade brawl became a US-China cage match. On Wednesday afternoon, Trump announced that he was further elevating sky-high tariffs on China — to 150% — while pausing his commercial assault against ne...

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Ceding Crimea Will Cede Eurasia April 24, 2025

A Russian Crimea could cut off American and European access to Central Asia, while benefiting China. ...

Trump Can Protect the Post-WWII World Order or Destroy It April 24, 2025

President Trump's Ukraine policy has arrived at what Joe Biden frequently referred to as “an inflection point.” Weeks after Volodomier Zelensky unconditionally accepted the U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, Vladimir Putin still refuses to do so, inste...

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Cambodia at Heart of Trump’s Proxy Trade War on China April 23, 2025

U.S. Investors Should Steer Clear of Communist China April 23, 2025

Early this month, Hong Kong-based shipping conglomerate CK Hutchison announced it was delaying signing a deal to sell ports it owns near the Panama Canal to BlackRock. The announcement comes as regulators in mainland China are expected to launch an a...

Bessent Expects ‘De-Escalation’ in u.s.-China Tariff April 23, 2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he expects “there will be a de-escalation” in President Donald Trump’s trade war with China in the “very near future.” ...

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EU Is No Match for China or U.S. April 23, 2025

In hindsight, what makes the 1990s appear to be worthy of nostalgia is the fact that almost everything ran on autopilot. European integration hummed along with Austria, Sweden, and Finland joining the European Union in 1995, turning a club of 12 into...

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China Will Struggle To Survive a Protracted Battle April 23, 2025

On Monday, China’s Ministry of Commerce blasted a sharp warning to the world. ...

China Can’t Go It Alone April 23, 2025

Assertions that America is at a disadvantage in a trade war with China take official bluster at face value while overlooking the profound structural weaknesses of the Chinese economy. The only trade partner capable of helping China out of the fix in ...

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Is Net Zero Possible Without Slave Labor? April 23, 2025

So, Ed Miliband has relented, and decided that after all it is not a good idea to build his green energy revolution on the back of slave labour in the Uighur region of China. Miliband had refused to back a Lords amendment to the Great British Energy ...

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China Needs To Change April 23, 2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spoke Wednesday to international economists attending the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring meetings in Washington D.C. this week, telling them the Trump administration wants to overhaul these in...

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China’s Patriots Are Buying the Dip April 22, 2025

China Retreats From U.S. Private Equity Investments, FT Reports April 22, 2025

Americas

The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition April 22, 2025

“After being dismissed as a phenomenon of an earlier century, great power competition returned.” So declared the National Security Strategy that President Donald Trump released in 2017, capturing in a single line the story that American foreign polic...

Ending the China Paradox April 22, 2025

Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, America has been the undisputed global hegemon. But that era is over. A new great-power rivalry has emerged between the United States and China—one unlike any before. ...

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China’s Disastrous Projects in Latin America and Africa April 22, 2025

Half-baked and shoddy projects, labor exploitation, debt traps and devastating environmental damage are part of the Chinese Communist Party portfolio. And people are noticing. ...

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Moon, Mars — China Leads to Both April 22, 2025

In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he and Senator Ted Cruz engaged in extensive dialogue about China. They strongly expressed the view that the United States must get our astronauts back to the...

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