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Operation Economic Fury Targets the CCPs Financial Heartbeat

Thinking About ChinaOpinionThe era of U.S. ’strategic ambiguity' toward China is over as the Trump administration targets adversarial regimes’ financial centers.Chinese 100 yuan notes and U.S. 100 dollar notes in Beijing on April 8, 2025. Jade Gao/AFP via Getty ImagesJames Gorrie4/23/2026|Updated: 4/23/20260:00CommentaryFor decades, the...
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The Great Retreat: Beijings Digital Currency Ambitions Are Faltering

The world’s largest totalitarian regime that prides itself on ’social engineering‘ has hit a ’Great Wall' of human resistance and economic reality.Signage of the Chinese digital currency is seen near a coffee store in the New Actuation Fintech Center in Beijing on Feb. 17,...
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How the Iran War and US Policy Are Reshapingand ThreateningChinas Economy

New energy shocks from the Middle East are accelerating structural changes inside China’s energy...
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Chinas De-Dollarization Push Meets Washingtons Defense of the Dollar

Thinking About ChinaOpinionChina is trying multiple ways to undermine the dollar to gain financial...
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Out of AfricaBeijing Slashes Investment Up to 85 Percent

ADWhat does that say about the state of China’s economy?A general view of a...
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The Big Choice: Western Europe Must Decide Between US Tariffs and Chinese Theft at Scale

U.S. President Donald Trump announces a trade deal with the EU after a meeting...
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How Tariffs Could Boost the US Economy and Fix the Trade Imbalance With China

ADTariffs on foreign partners played a big role in China’s economic transformation and could be...
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The China Effect

Is China where Western companies go to die?People wearing protective face masks walk past...
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China’s Shift to Debt Collector in Developing Countries—From Lender to Loan Shark

CommentaryIn the early 2000s, China played a modest role as a global lender. But...
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The Evergrande Collapse: A Reckoning for China’s Economy and the CCP

As China’s economic stability continues to deteriorate, Evergrande’s delisting from the Hong Kong Stock...
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Can the US Counter China’s Rare Earth Dominance?

Beijing’s stranglehold on rare earth refining gives it geopolitical leverage.8/27/2025|Updated: 8/27/2025CommentaryAs demand for rare...
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No Escape? China Stopping Foreign Executives From Leaving

CommentaryThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is stopping certain foreigners from leaving China. This policy...
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Communist China’s Pain Is America’s Gain

CommentaryThe days of nearly unlimited foreign direct investment (FDI) money flowing into China from...
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China’s New Law Legalizes Stealing Foreign IP

CommentaryIt appears that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knows that China’s heyday as the...
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