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AEI’s China analysis: Protecting American interests in the immediate future

Contending with China in the immediate future is a national security, economic, and moral imperative. The Chinese Communist Party’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, repression of Uighur Muslims, military aggression in the South China Sea, and enactment of its national security law in Hong Kong show Beijing to be an immediate threat not just to the US, but to the global order.

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