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China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
August 8-14, 2025
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Erika Lafrennie
Weaponizing Instability: What the US Gets Wrong About China’s Wars
How the PLA Turns Domestic Crisis Into Strategic Opportunity
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Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
August 1-7, 2025
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Erika Lafrennie
Narrative Warfare in Print: China, Ukraine, and the Future of Influence
What a Chinese scholar’s quiet essay reveals about Beijing’s strategy - and why the West must read between the lines.
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Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
July 25-31, 2025
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Erika Lafrennie

July 2025

Come In, You’re Free to Stay Forever
The Strategic Logic of Beijing’s Exit Ban Economy
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Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
July 18-24, 2025
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Erika Lafrennie
How the Qing Dynasty Can Help Crack the Russia-China Axis
Why Beijing's Patient Playbook in Siberia Reveals the Cracks Washington Should Exploit
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China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
July 11-17, 2025
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Erika Lafrennie
How China Weaponizes Fentanyl as Asymmetric Warfare
The Beijing–Sinaloa Nexus
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Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
July 4-10, 2025
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Erika Lafrennie
The Paper Dragon: Xi's Five Fatal Flaws
Five systemic weaknesses that challenge China’s image of rising power
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Erika Lafrennie
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