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The long game: China's grand strategy to displace American order | Brookings
What are China’s ambitions, and does it have a grand strategy to achieve them? If it does, what is that strategy, what shapes it, and what should the United States do about it? Rush Doshi attempts to provide an answer in his new book, "The Long Game."


The real reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and undermined Western corporate profits.

China’s response to Belt and Road backlash
Many of the accusations serve geopolitical or economic purposes. They are not always logically coherent. Responsibilities of Chinese businesses are confused

The Future, Made in China
Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.

Operational blunders at Asian Games disrupt Korean team - The Korea Times
Japan's organization of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games is drawing criticism over a string of missteps, from playing the wrong national anthem to poor...

Exclusive-Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say - AOL
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI

Japan under pressure amid accommodation woes as Asian Games kick off
It’s the world's biggest sporting event, held every four years – the 20th edition of Asian games is starting in Japan. Organisers came under pressure even before competition began… as thousands more…

Why China is giving away its best AI models
Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.

2026 Asian Games
The 2026 Asian Games , officially the XX Asian Games (第20回アジア競技大会) and also known as Aichi–Nagoya 2026 (愛知・名古屋2026), is an ongoing multi-sport event which are being held in Aichi Prefecture in Japan from 19 September to 4 October 2026, with several events starting from 10 September. Nagoya is the third Japanese city to host the Asian Games, after Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994. The event is set to return to its traditional four-year cycle, after the 2022 edition was postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Games marked the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Asian Games held in New Delhi, India.
Asian Games return to Japan after 32 years amid soaring costs, struggle for relevance
NAGOYA -- Japan will host the Asian Games for the first time in 32 years when the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games open Sept. 19. Athletes from 45 countries a

Taiwan Trip Report pt 3: Taipei
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here → Despite being the beginning of May Taipei was very warm. The sun …

Asian Games: N. Korean anthem mistakenly plays before S. Korea hockey game
North Korea's national anthem was mistakenly played before a men's hockey game between South Korea and Bangladesh at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, a source close to the matter said Friday.

After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon
An expert explains why this will be enormously bad for the United States.
