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U.S. and China Have Bigger Problems Than a Trade War
Fake islands, the Taiwan Travel Act and Chinese outreach to Russia are making military conflict more likely.
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The tit-for-tat trade sanctions fight between the U.S and China may be getting the headlines and rocking financial markets, but some less-noticed recent flare-ups between the world’s preeminent powers may present more lasting, and perilous, complications for American policymakers.
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