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Oct 4, 2024 | 
chinausfocus.com | Mallie Prytherch
Chinese esports company VSPO has announced its first multi-title tournament in Asia—The Esports Asian Champions League (ACL) in September, which will kick off next year, with tens of thousands of professional players set to compete across the continent in a six-month season each year.
In recent years, the landscape of the gaming industry has shifted dramatically, with Chinese developers emerging as formidable players on the global stage.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
chinausfocus.com | Mallie Prytherch
Senator JD Vance (left) and Donald Trump during a rally on July 27, 2024, in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Trump has said that Vance has his full support as vice presidential nominee. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
Ohio Senator J.D. Vance was recently announced as the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee. He is the first millennial on a major party ticket, and, if elected, he will be one of the youngest vice-presidents in American history.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Diana Fu |Ryan Hass |Jamie P. Horsley |Mallie Prytherch
There is a lot of discussion in Washington about China’s social and economic challenges and the potential implications of these challenges for Chinese society, governance, and foreign policy.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
chinausfocus.com | Mallie Prytherch
In recent months, scholars, government officials, and companies within China have begun planning for potential outcomes of the Biden-Trump rematch in November. However, President Trump, not unlike President Biden, has never articulated an overarching plan or endgame for what America wants from China. Predictive pieces from both countries are rampant, but many authors have seemingly forgotten the extent to which individual whim determined foreign policy during the first Trump administration.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Mallie Prytherch
Next week, US Congressman Mike Gallagher, chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, will resign. From the committee’s first session early last year, his chairmanship has been characterised by one overarching philosophy: the US must win against China.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
chinausfocus.com | Mallie Prytherch
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For many Americans, election season has turned into a never-ending process. The 24-hour news cycle and the expanded use of social media for campaigning means that there are few places that Americans can go to escape the perpetual election rhetoric. On the positive side, the average American is more politically involved than any time in the last fifty years. On the other hand, inundation by political messaging has a significant negative effect on health and wellbeing.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Mallie Prytherch
Wang Yi, one of China’s most seasoned diplomats, took the stage at China’s “two sessions” last Thursday to explain the strategic framework of the country’s foreign policy, underscoring a year of perceived diplomatic triumphs and charting the course for a more assertive global stance in 2024. Wang navigated an array of international concerns, from the war in the Middle East to Sino-US relations and infrastructure projects.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Patricia M. Kim |Mallie Prytherch
Editor's note: Editor’s note: This is the first essay of Global China’s “Lost in translation: Decoding Chinese strategic narratives” series. The full collection of essays can be found here. As Beijing faces intensifying geostrategic headwinds and scrutiny of its great power ambitions, the concept of 斗争, or douzheng — which translates to both “struggle” and “fight” in English — has resurfaced in Chinese strategic discourse.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Mallie Prytherch |Kenneth G. Lieberthal |Ryan Hass
The year 2023 has seen China grapple with high-profile geopolitical tensions, post-pandemic economic headwinds, and societal strains. But in the background, the world’s most populous nation is also wrestling with an intensifying environmental crisis. This past year, China set for extreme temperatures, faced the heaviest rains in over a decade, and worked to combat the worst droughts in 60 years.
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Mar 9, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Mallie Prytherch |Marsin Alshamary |Suzanne Maloney |Bruce Riedel
Twitter Join the conversation on Twitter using #Iraq2023 The year 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The complex and controversial nearly nine-year military operation resulted in a devastating death toll, the destabilization of the country and the region, and a power vacuum that enabled the rise of the Islamic State.
