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12 posts tagged china.
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AUKUS drones and the war beneath the waves
The West's bet on underwater drones to defend seabed cables reveals that the next great-power conflict may be decided below the surface, not above it.
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Hegseth's Taiwan silence at Shangri-La
Pete Hegseth's pointed omission of Taiwan at Asia's premier defence summit signals a US strategic pivot that could unravel forty years of deterrence doctrine in the Indo-Pacific.
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China's EVs are eating the world's car industry
A BBC investigation inside Chinese EV factories shows a manufacturing ecosystem so advanced and vertically integrated that the rest of the world's auto industry faces structural, not cyclical, decline.
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China's coal mine dead: eighty-two, and counting
The Shanxi disaster is the worst Chinese mining accident in seventeen years, exposing the gap between Beijing's safety pledges and the grinding reality of a coal-dependent economy.
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Xi plays host as the pivot deepens
Putin's arrival in Beijing four days after Trump's summit reveals China's strategy: not to choose between Washington and Moscow, but to profit from both.
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Honiara turns the page, and Beijing notices
The fall of Solomon Islands prime minister Jeremiah Manele is a small Pacific story with a large geopolitical implication: Chinese client states are not as locked in as their patron pretends.
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Two suspended death sentences and the long shadow over Xi
Beijing's quiet sentencing of two former defence ministers reads less like anti-corruption housekeeping than a warning about how brittle the apex has become.
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Britain's first China spies and the cost of strategic drift
The first convictions for spying for China in British history are a verdict on a generation of policy that pretended Beijing was a normal great power.
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Australia's Pacific scramble, and the cost of complacency
Canberra is racing to sign a security pact with Fiji after Beijing helped unwind the Vanuatu agreement — a small story that contains the whole logic of the new Pacific contest.
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UK Biobank records on Alibaba, and the fiction of data sovereignty
The continued appearance of confidential British health records on a Chinese commercial site reveals how little enforcement backs the grand data-protection architecture of the last decade.
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Jimmy Lai's German prize and the uses of moral capital
A free-speech award for a jailed Hong Kong publisher is not sentimental — it is a form of strategic clarity that Western governments have largely abandoned.
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Taiwan, Eswatini and the map China is quietly redrawing
The overflight row that delayed President Lai's state visit is a small episode in a much larger pattern — Beijing is teaching the world to treat Taiwanese sovereignty as conditional.