2025 Issue 38

Sadanand Dhume at the wall Street Journal writes that rumors of a Delhi-Beijing-Moscow alliance are overblown as the divisions between India and the PRC are deep and structural. 

Chinese citizens are growing increasingly nostalgic of the golden era of the early 2000s when economic prospects were bright and the grip by the Chinese Communist party was loosening. 

The Trump Administration reaches a weak deal with the PRC over TikTok even as the Chinese Communist Party places restrictions on the use of Nvidia chips and opens an anti-trust investigation into the company.