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Yaqi LiThe Diplomat |
Wang’s unprecedented consolidation of roles has made the Two Sessions press conference the most authoritative foreign policy signal Beijing...
The institutional machinery driving the Beijing summit is already too far advanced to reverse, and the Iran crisis has made holding it more urgent,...
The new strategy pairs "denial defense" with a strategic silence on Taiwan to maximize executive leverage. Yet this design rests on a dangerous...
China’s coercion threshold is set by its own internal logic – not by external “precedents.”
Far from celebrating an American retreat, Beijing’s strategists are reading the NSS as a blueprint for leaner – and potentially more dangerous –...
A tactical truce with the United States has redirected China’s coercive pressure toward Tokyo and across the Taiwan Strait.
Both the “engineering state” and the “mayor economy” framings obscure the critical mechanics of China’s growth machine.