2025 Issue 48

Robin Harding in the FT advises Europe to wake up and see that the PRC has not intention of building a mutually beneficial trade relationship.  Also in the FT, Weijian Shan calls on the PRC to let the RMB rise in value and to curb its addiction to exports, unless and until Beijing takes its own citizens’ consumption seriously, the Chinese economy will continue to underperform.

In the Washington Post, two former Assistant Secretaries of Defense for East Asia point out that Taiwan is now making the kinds of defense spending commitments that will make it possible for them to deter the PRC alongside continued assistance from the United States and other democracies.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute released a detailed report on the Chinese Communist Party’s attempts to build artificial intelligence systems which are designed to undermine human rights in the PRC and around the world.

David Rose in Unherd uncovers the efforts by CCP-linked entities to buy and operate nearly 250 schools across the United States in 19 different states.