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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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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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The Atlantic Xi Jinping’s Terrifying New China
The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades.
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Noel Celis / Getty; The Atlantic Washington Is Getting China Wrong
A crisis at a property company exposes deep, dangerous, and often unrecognized weaknesses in the Chinese economy.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic America’s China Strategy Is Working
Washington’s push against Beijing’s human-rights abuses could have more of an impact than tariffs or trade wars.
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Li Ran / Xinhua via Getty An ‘Early Test Case’ for a China-Led World
Beijing’s policies now that the Taliban is in charge will provide clues as to how it views global leadership.
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Matt Chase China Discovers the Limits of Its Power
Beijing’s confrontation with Australia should have been an unequal contest. That’s not how it worked out in practice.
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Lintao Zhang / Getty China Isn’t That Strategic
The country is often portrayed as a master of long-term thinking. It’s not that simple.
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Qilai Shen / Bloomberg / Drew Angerer / … The Electric-Car Lesson That China Is Serving Up for America
Beijing’s push to build an entire industry from scratch helps inform how the White House should proceed.
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GREG BAKER / AFP / Getty The Undoing of China’s Economic Miracle
The country’s paramount leader is turning away from reforms that helped it grow and develop. That will have consequences beyond its borders.
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Getty / Alicia Tatone How Xi Jinping Blew It
Public opinion toward China has darkened, and with Joe Biden set to become president, there is little prospect of Beijing fixing its mistake.
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Jose Lopes Amaral / NurPhoto / Getty Keep an Eye on Taiwan
The battle over the island may be a Cold War relic, but it will shape the future.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty What Happens When China Leads the World
The policies and practices of the country’s dynasties offer insights into how modern Chinese leaders may wield their strength.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Why America Is Afraid of TikTok
The company’s founder says in an interview that he wants it to be “a window” on the world. A Republican senator says it is a “Trojan horse.”
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why China Wants Trump to Win
Four more years might present tantalizing opportunities for Beijing to expand its influence around East Asia and the world.
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Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Don’t Believe the China Hype
When it comes to assessing Chinese power, things aren’t always as they seem.
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Corbis Historical / Getty China Has Dominated the West Before
As China comes into greater conflict with the West, now is a good time to consider the long arc of the relationship.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Angering China Can Now Get You Fired
The pressure on Hong Kong executives to suppress dissent could go global.
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