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Handshakes and Humiliation: Beijing’s Play for Taiwan Becomes Clearer | National Review
Xi is pursuing unification not merely through military preparation — but also through calibrated political warfare. Source link

Beijing’s Hostage Strategy in the AI Race | National Review
How China’s crackdown on Manus signals a new phase of techno-authoritarian competition — and how Washington should respond. Source link

How Five Common Chinese Expressions Help Explain Beijing’s Conflicting Chip Signals | National Review
The struggle is best understood as a code war — originating in technology but extending far beyond it. Source link

Chinese banks stumble on Beijing’s consumer lending push
[BEIJING] Chinese banks are struggling to comply with new Beijing guidelines to boost consumer credit as they reel from a surge of defaults on personal loans and have a...

