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How Washington Overestimates Chinese Weakness

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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Xi Jinping and the US-China Relationship

I find increasingly that no matter what the issue is vis-a-vis US-China or developments within China, China, Taiwan, the narratives tend to be very polar. It's either all this or all that, right? And they tend to be grossly oversimplified, almost just sort of like a sock puppet type level, you know? So one of those is that Xi Jinping is either Stalinist, madman, or he came in initially and he wanted to, he was turning left to turn right, you know, these kinds of ideas. The reality is it's only somewhere in the messy middle. There are certain SOPs,. I guess we could say that Xi Jinping

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