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China's Approach to the Global Order Is Not What It's About

Shijamping, in a very important political year, does not want this kind of diversion. This is a year when he was hoping to take his victory lap with the olympics and hong kong is erupted. China tends to be subtle. Tends to take the long view. Has a stake in the global order. But they have been trying to build the belton road initiative. They've been trying to use their economic cloud to gradually expand their military footprints. The russian approach going in pictures all over the world of killing civilians, hitting apartment blocks with missiles isn't what china's about. And so it's, it's, i think, been a bit of

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