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If geopolitics in 2020 were a game of chess, we’d need a bigger board. Or perhaps a whole new set of rules. A sharper knowledge of chess might help me here.

The U.S. Attorney General said major American companies like Disney and Apple have become pawns of China. U.S. officials previously accused China of working to steal coronavirus vaccine research, and this week Russian state intelligence was linked to the same. And then there are the territorial disputes involving the South China Sea.