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Is a Rebuked China Taking a Timeout?

Posted July 27th, 2016 at 11:22 am (UTC-4)
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The deeper problem underlying the South China Sea dispute is the increasingly assertive nationalism of Chinese President Xi Jinping. But here, too, the Chinese appear to have taken a step back from the public anti-U.S. agitation that immediately followed the ruling.

Does China Need More Friends in Asia?

Posted March 21st, 2016 at 12:46 pm (UTC-4)
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There could come a threshold beyond which the intersection of allied doubts and growing Chinese heft could compel China’s neighbors to “choose” China over the United States as their most consequential long-term partner—less out of strategic preference than of perceived imperatives.