(Bloomberg) Jim Mattis arrived Tuesday in Beijing on the first China visit by a U.S. defense secretary in four years, as the Trump administration moves to push back against the country’s growing economic and military influence.
Oriana Skylar Mastro | The National Interest
Kim Jong Un's visit to China demonstrates that China has been successful at keeping North Korea close and leveraging the relationship to achieve its own overarching goals beyond denuclearization. These goals are not necessarily to the US detriment. If China successfully pushes Kim on the path to reform, then this could likely lead to more freedom and openness in North Korean society as a whole.
No government has a more ambitious and far-reaching plan to harness the power of data to change the way it governs than the Chinese government. Its Social Credit System (SCS), laid out in a plan released in 2014 and still under construction, aims to extend financial credit scoring systems—commonly...
by Miles Maochun Yu via Military History in the News
Since the end of the Cold War, leading Western military leaders and strategists have consistently pressured China to answer a meaningless question: “What are your intentions for the massive military buildup?”