2023 Issue 14

Xi tacks closer to Putin in territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, reversing a six decade position first put forward by Mao Zedong; the PRC announces that it will impose an inspection regime on ships in the Taiwan Strait threatening freedom of navigation; for years Beijing has used anti-trust reviews as a weapon to undermine foreign firms; American venture capital firms pour money into the PRC to fund advanced artificial intelligence research just as the U.S. Government imposes extraordinary steps to prevent the PRC from advancing; and according to Bloomberg, Apple is conducting a secretive campaign to reduce its dependency on the PRC.