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US and China Passing Laws to Stifle Trade and Investment

US and China Passing Laws to Stifle Trade and Investment

US and China Passing Laws to Stifle Trade and Investment

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Time for Beltway Admirals to Think About War 2025, Not Paper Fleet 2045

Time for Beltway Admirals to Think About War 2025, Not ...

Time for Beltway Admirals to Think About War 2025, Not Paper Fleet 2045

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TikTok E-Commerce Wants You

TikTok E-Commerce Wants You

Commentary TikTok, the social media app owned by China’s ByteDance, wants all o...

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The Failure of Communism With Chinese Characteristics

The Failure of Communism With Chinese Characteristics

Commentary The debate between supporters of authoritarian communism (or Marxism...

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China’s Actual Unemployment Rate Is in Double Digits

China’s Actual Unemployment Rate Is in Double Digits

Commentary One of the hot topics these days is China’s level of unemployment. I...

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Is China Reaching Its Glasnost/Perestroika Moment?

Is China Reaching Its Glasnost/Perestroika Moment?

Structural decline in economic growth accelerates as tighter controls and one-ma...

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Has the West Abandoned Central Asia and Vice-Versa? 

Has the West Abandoned Central Asia and Vice-Versa? 

Commentary It was almost as if, by July 2023, the great opening had never occur...

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BRICS and the Currency Wars

BRICS and the Currency Wars

Commentary Talk of expanding BRICS membership and de-dollarization is gaining t...

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Wagner Group Returns to Africa, Jeopardizing CCP Interests

Wagner Group Returns to Africa, Jeopardizing CCP Interests

Commentary Wagner Group’s resurgence in Africa poses a significant challenge to...

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Can a Centenarian Save the Chinese Economy?

Can a Centenarian Save the Chinese Economy?

Commentary Recent news reports indicate that the Chinese economic ship is in se...

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China’s Failed Economic Strategies

China’s Failed Economic Strategies

Commentary China’s economy is unraveling because its economic strategies are fa...

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Will the Yuan Replace the Dollar?

Will the Yuan Replace the Dollar?

Commentary With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) now allowing countries to...

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Germany Challenges China

Germany Challenges China

Germany’s newly minted China strategy shows a turn toward wariness if not outrig...

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China Commission to MLB, US Firms: Stop Subsidizing China’s Abuses

China Commission to MLB, US Firms: Stop Subsidizing Chi...

Commentary Baseball may seem as American as apple pie, but many of its most pop...

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Data With Chinese Characteristics

Data With Chinese Characteristics

Commentary China released its latest GDP figure showing strong 6.3 percent year...

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The West Leaks Chip Tech to China

The West Leaks Chip Tech to China

Commentary The U.S.–China chip war is heating up. The world’s two largest super...