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Biden's Asia-Pacific Rebalancing Push
The United States has tried to shift its foreign policy focus from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific for two decades. Will Biden finally succeed? -
ChinaTalk: Why Are Chinese TV Dramas So Bad?
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Alibaba Is Fined; Other Tech Companies Are Put on Notice
Lawfare’s biweekly roundup of U.S.-China technology policy and national security news. -
A Multilateral Surveillance Accord: Setting the Table
Stakeholders are increasingly advocating for a multilateral accord on government surveillance. -
A Preview of Post-Withdrawal Problems in Afghanistan
Tuesday’s House Armed Services Committee hearing previewed some problems that might emerge as a result of withdrawing from Afghanistan. -
Water Wars: Chinese Maritime Militia Disperses Amid Political Standoff With the Philippines and the United States
China’s “gray-zone” tactics around the South China Sea, diplomatic developments with Taiwan and applying the Law of the Sea in the Spratly Islands. -
An Off-the-Shelf Guide to Extended Continental Shelves and the Arctic
Alarmed rhetoric about great power competition over the Arctic has been based partly on common errors about extended continental shelf claims. Accurate descriptions of these claims are necessary to under... -
ChinaTalk: How Huarong Explains China's Creaky Financial System
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Is the WTO the Worst of Both Worlds for U.S.-China Tech Competition?
As the Biden administration reconsiders the role of industrial policy in the U.S. economy, it will need to ask whether the United States should follow WTO rules even if it believes they cannot be enforce... -
It Is Time to Stop Looking for a Reset With Russia
Common interests and shared values are necessary for durable bilateral relations—and the United States shares neither with Russia. -
ChinaTalk: Bo Xilai and How Xi Learned from the Chongqing Model
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Belfast Tinderbox: Why Loyalists Are in the Streets This Spring
Protests and riots in response to the new post-Brexit customs border have raised fears about renewed sectarian violence.



