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The ‘Iron Dam’ killed 240,000 in 1975. Rebuilt to bury the truth, it has twice been declared hazardous since—the risk of collapse still hangs overhead.
Beijing is attempting to break the U.S. hub-and-spoke alliance system in Asia by making an example of Tokyo.
Beijing’s policy logic places too much emphasis on managing supply but falls short in improving consumer spending power and confidence.
Part 3: The same law that disciplines identity at home now claims a right to police dissenting identity abroad.
Members and speakers critical of China are being purged.
The urge to internationalize the yuan seems to have impelled Beijing to liberalize capital flows it had previously resisted.
Chinese state media’s ‘heroic’ test pilot story revealed that the PLA Navy carrier program is less mature than propaganda has suggested.
Manila is countering pro-CCP politicians, propaganda, and ‘academic exchange.’
The post-World War II era of a demilitarized and accommodating Japan facilitating China’s rise is over.
For years now, Beijing has committed itself to increasing consumer spending and failed each time. It looks like it will fail again.
Trump has come back from last winter’s adverse Supreme Court ruling to levy a new round of tariffs, aiming at China in a new way.
