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Even a modest US-China understanding would deliver more nuclear stability than UN multilateral process has produced in 15 years
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Summit should be judged realistically on whether it helps define the boundaries of rivalry and reduces the risk of miscalculation
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China continues to tout its 5% GDP growth figure, but the ICOR metric reveals just how badly the nation is wasting capital
Trump has actually started to decouple US from China
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Notion that Trump is about to impose his will on Xi’s China reads less like a serious strategy and more like a political punchline
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