China’s renewed casting of doubt about Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa is intended to create a handy tool for political pressure on Tokyo. The ambition isn’t to pursue sovereignty over the territory. Beijing can apply the …
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To understand how China will seek to extend its critical-minerals dominance, look at how it has moved into Indonesia’s nickel industry. Over the past decade, Chinese companies, backed by state-owned banks, have been able to …
Taiwan isn’t Ukraine. Russia’s victim has withstood almost four years of war, but it has advantages in perseverance that Taiwan lacks. Taiwan needs its own ways of holding out against China, particularly against a Chinese …
Xi Jinping’s latest purge of top military officers probably reduces the chance of China taking imminent, deliberate military action to seize Taiwan. But many interpretations of the event are possible, and some imply an increased …
China’s propaganda is playing up the country’s response to climate change, aiming at presenting an image of global leadership, especially as the United States retreats from the field. While Beijing has played an indispensable role …