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China/ Chinese Communist Party – The Party That Failed China  Cai Xia, Foreign Affairs

#Chine🇨🇳/ Le parti qui a échoué – Une initiée rompt avec Pékin – Mémoire-essai fascinant de #CaiXia, ancien professeur à l'École centrale du Parti du PCC, tombée en disgrâce lorsqu'elle a remis en question la règle dure de #XiJinping | @ForeignAffairs https://t.co/WGMPMdPU7K

— Azra Isakovic (@azraisakovic) December 5, 2020

China/ Supply Chains  – Does China Pose a Threat to Global Rare Earth Supply Chains? | CSIS

China/Technology –How China is buying up the West’s high-tech sector, Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Policy

US/Defense – Conference Report Summary for the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, U.S. House Armed Services Committee 

US/Foreign Policy – A New Direction: A foreign policy playbook on military restraint for the Biden team, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft 

China/Biden  Biden’s Chance to Challenge China  Dan Blumenthal, Newsweek

Vaccines – Vaccines Prompt a Wave of Economic Exuberance Robin Wigglesworth, FT

Turkey/EU Turkey Does Its Own Thing  Nigar Goksel & Hugh Pope, Chatham House

Do US & Europe draw Turkey closer only to contain & subjugate it?
Has Ankara been using its western allies to beef up its capabilities, only to work at cross purposes?
Pursue/withdraw patterns have always been inherent in their relations. https://t.co/Hgc1YOAIkM

— Nigar Goksel (@nigargoksel) December 4, 2020

RCEP – The Limits of the RCEP  Lee Jong-Wha, Project Syndicate

North Korea – Resetting With North Korea  Bonnie Kristian, RealClearWorld

Japan – Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force Revitalization  Felix Chang, FPRI