2025 Issue 45

Keith Bradsher at the New York Times describes the more than two decades of effort that Chinese leaders had made to decouple themselves from the West, while amassing power to coerce other countries through economic dependencies.

Kate O’Keeffe at Bloomberg uncovers the failures of the U.S. Government to protect critical technology for autonomous trucking from being looting by a PRC company with significant Communist Party backing.

In Foreign Policy, Shannon Van Sant describes how the Chinese Communist Party is waging a war of intimidation and coercion against artists around the world that are critical of the regime.

The former China Senior Director from the Biden Administration, Sarah Beran, comments in the Financial Times about how the rivalry between the United States and the PRC is here to stay.

Jenny Leonard and others at Bloomberg break the story that the German Government is considering using taxpayer funding to pay German telecommunications firms to rip and replace Huawei gear despite years of warnings to those companies against buying the compromised equipment.