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Of Interest
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Rhodesia, the Vanished State: How Societies Succeed and Fail
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The Limits of China’s Self-Sufficiency
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REVIEW: South Africa's Brave New World, by R.W. Johnson
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China’s Economy Has a Huge Weakness
by Michael Schuman at The Atlantic
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Chinese Robots Could Decide the AI Race
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How to Make an AI Deal With China: Trade Throttling for Pacing
by Simon Goldstein at Lawfare
China’s AI Rollout Has No Off Switch
by Agathe Demarais at Foreign Policy
AI Exports and the Dream of a “Tech West”
by Alexander Rosenquist at American Enterprise Institute
The Looming Closure of China’s AI Frontier
by Alexander Rosenquist at American Enterprise Institute
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Europe Can’t Get Out of Its Own Way
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How Iran Changed War
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