2025 Issue 27

The wall Street Journal’s chief China correspondent describes how the Chinese Communist Party sees itself as in a cold war with the United States and the PRC Foreign Minister tells his European counterpart that China doesn’t want Russia to lose because that would aid the United States.

The former UK diplomat, Charles Parton, assesses rumors that Xi Jinping has been sidelined and in a surprising development London left the PRC off the toughest tier of its new Foreign Influence Registration legislation.  It suggests that the UK’s Labour government, like its counterparts in Australia and Canada, are seeking appeasement with Beijing rather than deal with the threats head on.