Domestic Turmoil Won’t Make Beijing Launch an Attack—but Will Make It More Likely to React to External Threats; American Hatred Goes Global; China’s Language Police
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The Myth of Chinese Diversionary War

Domestic Turmoil Won’t Make Beijing Launch an Attack—but Will Make It More Likely to React to External Threats

 By M. Taylor Fravel

 

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American Hatred Goes Global

How the United States Became a Leading Exporter of White Supremacist Terrorism

By Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware

 
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China’s Language Police

Why Beijing Seeks to Extend the Hegemony of Mandarin

By Gina Anne Tam

 

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