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Jacques Chirac: The Art of Being Vague
The tributes have been dripping in heavy praise: former French president Jacques Chirac and mayor of Paris, the great statesman; the man who said...
Scott Morrison’s China Thesis
China has rattled Western observers for centuries, and the idea that it might be approaching a level of formidable heft is troubling to those...
