The battle for rare earths has reached the abyss. China thinks it can win there too, as it out-maneuvers the U.S. and New Zealand in the South Pacific.
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On February 14, as the ninth Asian Winter Games drew to a spectacular close, few watching Chinese state television would have recognized the stocky, open-shirted man sitting beside Premier Li Qiang in the VIP box of Harbin’s Convention and Exhibition Center.
Mark Brown, prime minister of the Cook Islands, wasn’t in Heilongjiang’s frozen capital for sport — nor its famous ice sculptures.
Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Mark Brown, meets with Chinese Premier Li Qiang
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Not content to run the world’s second most powerful country for a decade, Xi Jinping set about changing everything everywhere all at once. In an excerpt from their new book, Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung examine how Xi seized personal control of China’s foreign policy apparatuses.
The academic talks about whether China’s experience shows there can be such a thing as ‘good environmental authoritarianism’, and what the U.S. could learn from its approach to green policy.
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