China is learning how to lose friends and alienate countries
Tricking Sweden into building a military base on its territory is not the best way to go about winning an ally
It is often said that the Beijing political elites are encouraged to read the works of the great thinkers of the West. The theory is that by reading the books of people like Alexis de Tocqueville and Thucydides, politicians will glean an insight into the Western mind that should…
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