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Multiple battlefronts as China takes on the world – Sydney Morning Herald
China is now engaged in simultaneous diplomatic, military and trade disputes across the world. Where will it end?
At the centre of all these disputes is a China with territorial, technological and economic ambitions that are starting to match the size of its population and the weight of its history, what Xi has called the end of its 200-year eclipse and the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”. It is no coincidence that excerpts from the Lankao speech and a dozen others were published on Wednesday in Qiushi, the Communist Party’s main theoretical journal.
The world is bracing for more escalations tha…
