◎ U.S. national security would benefit from Trump’s return to the core principles that guided his original instincts toward China and North Korea.
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Save the Taiwan Relations Act, but Scrap Ambiguity: Defend Taiwan
◎ The China threat toward Taiwan has to be confronted at some point.
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Risk Watch: China Economic Rebound? Major Shareholders Vote with Their Feet
◎China will find it hard to sustain the economic “recovery” in April. ◎Risks of a stock market crash are greater than before.
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Geopolitics Watch: Europe Walks into the CCP’s ‘Concessions Trap’
◎ The CCP’s modus operandi ensures that the EU-China joint statement might as well be a blank sheet of paper.
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Risk Watch: China Broadens Issuance of Local Government Bonds to Defer Crisis
◎ The CCP is putting its political credit on the line by making local bonds available over the counter.
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Trump Owes His ‘Friend’ Xi a Tough-love Message
◎ If Trump and Xi can make the tough decisions, they can avoid military confrontation that hardliners on both sides see as inevitable and even necessary.
Geopolitics Watch: China Prepares to Sign ‘Unequal Treaty,’ Continues Delaying Tactics in Trade War
◎ The CCP’s trade war strategy is revealed in its propaganda. Meanwhile, America struggles with the Party’s delaying tactic.
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Politics Watch: A Black Swan Leading Indicator Emerges from Xi’s Italy Trip
◎ In Italy, Xi signals strong determination to push through reforms.
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It’s Time for China to Become a Normal Country
◎ Moral, political and diplomatic pressure on human rights will go a long way toward encouraging the emergence of the normal China the world and the Chinese people long have been promised.
Geopolitics Watch: Xi’s Europe Trip, the Sino-US Trade War, & Global Geopolitics
◎ The stalemate in Sino-U.S. trade negotiations has led to a stalemate in global geopolitics.
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