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Does China Need More Friends in Asia?

Posted March 21st, 2016 at 12:46 pm (UTC-5)
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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.

It’s Going to Take a Lot More Than a Historic Handshake to Fix China’s Relations With Taiwan

Posted November 9th, 2015 at 12:09 pm (UTC-5)
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It’s always better to talk than fight (there was much mention of peace by Xi and Ma). Yet, beyond the show of symbolism, the summit was underwhelming — a milestone but not a breakthrough, because it was much more about the past than the present or future.