States of Play by Sam Olsen

States of Play by Sam Olsen

Will China move into Afghanistan?

Starting Series 2 of "What China Wants"

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Sam Olsen
Sep 14, 2021
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Hello fellow China watchers,

Welcome to Series 2 of What China Wants, as I try to untangle what China is up to in the world.

What’s quite extraordinary to note is how different things are now from when I started WCW just over a year ago. Back then, many of us hoped that Beijing and Washington were locked in a Trumpian spat that would at some point break. …

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