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Is China on the brink of war with the US?

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Introduction

China wants to be the superpower of the 21st century, but does it want to provoke war or play peacemaker? This week China announced that it was increasing its military spending. It also published a 12-point plan for ending the conflict in Ukraine despite never condemning Russia's invasion. Is this the moment where Beijing asserts itself on the world stage after being locked away during zero Covid for so long? After Xi Jinping's U-turn on that very issue, is he now weaker or in fact, strongly?

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