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Five Strategic Gambits Beijing Will Attempt in 2026 (and Their Hidden Weaknesses)
What China will try in 2026, and the structural pressures that shape each move.
 • Erika Lafrennie
What We Got Wrong About China in 2025
Xinanigans is a strategic intelligence brief on China’s governing system—psychological, systemic, and unnervingly readable.
 • Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
Weekly intelligence brief decoding China’s most strategic moves in governance-based competition and what they mean for US national security.
 • Erika Lafrennie
Top 10 Fault Lines China Can’t Acknowledge (But You Should Watch Closely)
What China’s leaders cannot acknowledge in 2026, and how these fractures shape the system from within.
 • Erika Lafrennie
Not Muskets, but Ministries: The Return of America's Oldest Strategic Challenge
America’s first strategic competition was fought through governance, not firepower — and George Washington understood why.
 • Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
December 5 - December 11, 2025
 • Erika Lafrennie
The 10 Most Dangerous Ideas in Beijing Right Now
What China’s leadership believes heading into 2026, and why it could break the system.
 • Erika Lafrennie
China This Week: Strategic Moves and Messaging
November 21 - December 4, 2025
 • Erika Lafrennie
A Field Guide to the Real US–China Strategic Competition
The master framework behind Xinanigans — and the seven domains that define China’s governing power.
 • Erika Lafrennie
Governance Is the New Geoeconomics
The next global leader will be the system that governs best, not the one that grows fastest.
 • Erika Lafrennie

November 2025

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