Southeast Asia’s runaway gambling industry has created chaos — both to the detriment and advantage of China.
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Alice Guo can’t remember it anymore. At least, that’s the phrase — Hindi ko na po maalala — that the deposed Philippine mayor repeated so often and so implausibly at a May hearing just outside Manila that it lit up social media with memes.
Facing accusations of fraud, human trafficking and espionage, the 38-year-old Guo could recall neither where she was born, nor why the birth was registered 17 years late (the same was true of her brother). She couldn’t remember her school, or the
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From Mike Mansfield to Max Baucus and Steve Daines, Montana has been the unlikely source of America’s most influential China-hand senators over the past half-century. But amidst spy balloons, trade wars and mutual paranoia, being a proponent for rational and beneficial relations between the two countries has never been harder.
The former CIA officer says Washington has lacked a clear strategy towards intelligence on China, in contrast to Beijing’s approach — and that Congress needs to act.
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