China’s threat cuts deep into global security networks
Undersea cables sustain international Internet traffic, financial transactions and military systems
United States
Xi reaches out to China’s neighbors to combat US risks
Beijing has a ‘new vision for neighborhood diplomacy in a fragmenting world’ full of ‘uncertainty’
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ will hasten China’s domination
His legacy will be Beijing’s ‘consolidated influence across much of the world’
‘Trump’s actions amount to declaring war on China’
Tariff turmoil has exposed the ‘blackmailing nature’ of the United States as Beijing hits back
China warns ‘tariffs’ will create economic ‘tsunami’
But ‘Xi has a lot of incentive to swallow his pride and start negotiating with Trump quickly’
Washington has lost the ‘economic battle’ with Beijing
China has ripped up America’s ‘playbook’ with ‘state capitalism’ dominating the international order
Washington is in a ‘scientific arms race’ with Beijing
US is failing to defend its ‘intellectual property’ and slipping behind in ‘investing in new research’
UK deal to cede Chagos Islands triggers China fears
Critics argue the agreement could threaten the security of a joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia
China is struggling to get to grips with the D-word
The world’s second-largest economy is drowning in deflation and debt as consumer spending dries up
Fragmented politics rule in a fragmented world
Beijing’s Communist Party bash was in sharp contrast to the scenes at the US Capitol for Trump’s speech