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Anna Moneymaker / Getty A Russian Defeat in Ukraine Could Save Taiwan
In a wide-ranging conversation, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan talks about how Putin’s invasion has gone wrong, a fraught meeting with the Saudi crown prince, and the upcoming anniversary of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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Getty; The Atlantic How China Wants to Replace the U.S. Order
What began as a trade war and a tech war between Beijing and Washington is now an ideas war.
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Jessica Sarkodie The Future of Mud
A Senegalese architecture firm is championing a lower-tech material than concrete to help cities prepare for climate change.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Accidental Trumpification of NATO
In a narrow but important sense, the world has become more amenable to the former president. And yet.
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Aly Song / Reuters The End of Shanghai’s Two-Month COVID Lockdown
Images from the past few weeks of lockdown, and early signs of Shanghai’s reopening
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Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty Two Weeks of COVID Lockdown in Shanghai
Millions of residents have been confined to their homes for weeks as Chinese authorities have taken a zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19.
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Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty Is Taiwan Next?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes the frightening possibility of China seizing control of the island more real.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty Can China Ever Reopen?
Xi Jinping’s first and only priority is political security, making a quick reopening almost untenable.
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Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty The Muslim World Isn’t Coming to Save the Uyghurs
As China prepares to host the Winter Games, it can count on the tacit support of majority-Muslim countries.
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The Atlantic These Beijing Olympics Send a Much Darker Message
Since 2008, the Games’ 2022 host has grown more powerful—and more fearful.
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Stephane Cardinale / Corbis / Getty; The Atlantic China Is Watching Ukraine With a Lot of Interest
Biden’s handling of Putin may tell Xi Jinping how resolutely the U.S. would defend Taiwan.
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Louise Delmotte / Getty Why Authoritarian Regimes Bother With Elections
Beijing rewrote the rules of Hong Kong’s recent elections, and the result among voters was apathy.
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Getty; The Atlantic China Hawks Don’t Understand How Science Advances
The U.S. government’s attempt to keep China from stealing technology has degenerated into a squeeze on its own scientists.
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Andrea Verdelli / Getty China’s Big New Idea
Why Xi Jinping won’t stop talking about “common prosperity”
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Getty ; The Atlantic China Wants to Rule the World by Controlling the Rules
The American monopoly on international rule-writing is facing its stiffest challenge since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Xin Li / Getty What the Peng Shuai Scandal Is Really About
The disappearance of the Chinese tennis star is an embarrassment to Beijing—and undercuts its campaign to present the Chinese system as a model for the world.
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Miguel Candela / Anadolu Agency / Getty Beijing Keeps Trying to Rewrite History
The removal of a monument to the Tiananmen Square massacre is part of a broader effort in Hong Kong to erase the public memory.
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Ben Hickey The Dueling Ideas That Will Define the 21st Century
Our paradigms mold our assumptions and expectations, and thus our policies and behavior.
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Ben Hickey The World Is Fed Up With China’s Belligerence
Democracies are no longer as worried as they once were about offending a fragile Beijing.
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Ben Hickey What Will Drive China to War?
A cold war is already under way. The question is whether Washington can deter Beijing from initiating a hot one.
