How China is winning the Middle East (www.defenseone.com)
Zaha Hadid Architects skyscraper nears completion on world's most expensive site (www.dezeen.com)
BYD Is Now Bigger Than Tesla After Record Quarterly Sales (www.barrons.com)
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Xi says to start a 'new trend of family'; refuses to help new families (stoppopulationdecline.org)
Hong Kong: New Incentives to Counter Falling Birth Rates (stoppopulationdecline.org)
The Esoteric Symbolism of Animals in Kung Fu (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Chinese state media censors itself after highlighting poem about corrupt leaders (www.theguardian.com)
Hong Kong Study: Boost in Fertility Intentions as Dads Step Up (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
China looking to car sales as it seeks to get economy back on track (www.scmp.com)
Xi Jinping Thought on Austerity With Chinese Characteristics (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
China's Good Crisis, Will Xi Address the Looming Depression and Population Collapse? (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
China asks Philippines to jointly work on defusing South China Sea tensions (news.yahoo.com)
Births in China could fall to 7 million in 2023 (www.stoppopulationdecline.org)
China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD (www.dw.com)
Why Is China’s Economy Stumbling? (www.nytimes.com)
Study: China's Housing Bubble Break The Two-Child Policy (stop-population-decline.ghost.io)
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Remarkable Artifacts Discovered in Vast Bronze Age Site in north China (www.guardianmag.us)
How China is using folk religion to woo Taiwan (www.economist.com)
China and Xi are making a backup plan in case Putin dies or gets deposed, analyst says (www.businessinsider.com)
This article is a few weeks old, and very interesting in light of more recent events.