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Beijing's Overreach

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The Log Rolling Dynamic of the Oligarchs

Under Hu Zhan Tao, there was a kind of log rolling in which each of the oligarchs and at the time they had nine of them. And we also saw it in things like the South China Sea, where some of these bureaucratic interest groups started trying to enforce their claims over territory. Overreach doesn't just mean being aggressive. It means being aggressive belligerent in a way that has sparked a backlash and led to domestically led to a lot of economic problems.

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