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Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. On Wednesday, December 18, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released a 182-page report on China’s military. The China Military ...

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An estimated four billion people across some eighty countries—roughly half of the world’s population—headed to the polls to ...

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