What Xi Jinping’s rhetoric reveals about China’s global aims
Beijing’s call for “fighters” in leadership roles signals a battle with the West for dominance in tech.
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The Foreign Office has taught fewer than five civil servants to speak Cantonese
The department has been accused of undermining its ability to challenge China by training so few to speak its primary…
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What is the meaning of North Korea’s nuclear opportunism?
With the West distracted by the war in Ukraine, Kim Jong Un may have decided now is the time to…
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