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China Is Low-Key Taking Over the World: Weekend Edition
Just beyond the headlines, its influence is growing.
Always in the background.
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Before we get to our Top 5, let’s take a quick look back at the week’s biggest theme. The headlines were dominated by the Trump-Kim summit, mega-mergers and a building-climbing raccoon. But always in the background was China – its growing power in the world and its increasingly confrontational relationship with the U.S. The week started with China being possibly the biggest winner of the Singapore summit and ended with President Donald Trump’s new Chinese tariffs.
Bloomberg Opinion had many, many China pieces this week (including two in the Top 5), all with “shelf life” – they’ll be informative and insightful long after this week’s other headlines fade: