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Disaster At Gyirong Port
Friends, If you haven’t seen the videos from CCTV cameras at the PRC’s Gyirong border crossing site in the Himalayas, it is terrifying. I recommend against showing these videos to children.
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China’s digital exports are transforming the global balance of power. What began as telecom development has become an international architecture of surveillance empowering autocrats worldwide.

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Friends, If you haven’t seen the videos from CCTV cameras at the PRC’s Gyirong border crossing site in the Himalayas, it is terrifying. I recommend against showing these videos to children.
September 6, 2026
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In a new century defined by another great-power competition, how does the United States match China in terms of integrating defense needs with its technological and industrial capacities?
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For more than half a century, American statesmen have been told that the most delicate business with the communists who rule China must be conducted quietly.
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