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Nov 2025
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Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacr...

Foreign Affairs Magazine
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Last week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may have brought a respite in the trade war. But it hardly touched the more fundamental drivers of U.S.-Chinese rivalry, a rivalry that has come to shape more and more dimensions of geopolitics, the global economy, and beyond. Few have spent as much time observing and chronicling the interactions betwee ... Show More
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