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How Trump’s Policies Are Helping China

For the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, most Western commentators on U.S.-Chinese relations saw the Trump administration’s approach to China as a strategic failure; some even…

Yadong Liu 05 October 2018

The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, Mao and the Middle East

Sixty years ago, on August 23, 1958, Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army launched over 40,000 rounds of artillery at the island of Kinmen (also known as Quemoy), which was controlled by Chiang Kai…

Thomas Shattuck 24 August 2018

China’s Brutal Crackdown on the Uighur Muslim Minority

[caption id="attachment_55257322" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colours of the flag of East Turkestan and a hand bearing the colours of the Chinese…

Majalla 17 August 2018

China’s Liaoning Power Play

[caption id="attachment_55254047" align="aligncenter" width="900"] HONG KONG, CHINA - JULY 07: Destroyer Yinchuan led by China's first aircraft carrier Liaoning arrives in Hong Kong Special…

Thomas J. Shattuck 13 July 2017

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