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China isn’t chasing growth, it’s selling predictability in a fractured world

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China Focus ·Posted by Catchjoey Mar 23

I remember a report reads that a fund manager said, “In geopolitics, everyone talks about risk, but money only cares about who can price it.” Watching the signals coming out of the China Development Forum 2026, that line suddenly feels less like a joke and more like a framework.

Held at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse just after China’s Two Sessions, the forum carried an unusually coherent message: in a world where geopolitical tensions, supply chain fragmentation, and protectionism are all intensifying, China is positioning itself not as the loudest player, but as the most predictable one. That distinction matters more than it sounds. In Washington’s policy language, uncertainty is often weaponized, through tariffs, export controls, and strategic ambiguity. In Beijing’s language, uncertainty is treated as something to be absorbed, managed, and reduced.

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Policing Beyond Borders: China’s Law-Enforcement Expansion in the Mekong Region

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NBR.org September 17, 2025

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) faces a mounting challenge from transnational organized crime along its southern periphery. Myanmar has become the world’s most criminalized state, particularly after the 2021 military coup, providing a safe haven for illicit economies ranging from drug, human, and arms trafficking to illegal mining, cybercrime, and financial crimes.1 Other Mekong countries have also emerged as criminal hotspots, with Cambodia hosting around 100,000 trafficked victims in scam centers, according to a UN estimate.2 Sustained by corruption, weak governance, and entrenched Chinese criminal networks, these activities have disproportionately targeted Chinese nationals and thus have been framed as a matter of national security by the party-state.

In response, the PRC Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and other security agencies have intensified law-enforcement efforts in the Mekong region, designated as a “pilot zone” (实验区) for the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议). Chinese authorities have increased pressure on their neighbors and multiplied joint operations, resulting in the arrest and deportation of over 55,000 individuals from scam centers in northern Myanmar between August 2023 and April 2025.3 At the same time, Beijing has sought to pursue subregional security mechanisms under its leadership. These include coordinated Mekong river patrols with Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, which were launched in 2011, and the Lancang-Mekong Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Center (LM-LECC), a spin-off intergovernmental body established in Yunnan in 2017 within the broader Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework.

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Lancang-Mekong countries see positive outcomes from joint anti-crime operation

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Langcan-Mekong Coorperation January 29, 2026

Six Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) countries have achieved fruitful results in combating telecommunication fraud, online gambling, and drugs and human trafficking in 2025.

During the”Safe Lancang-Mekong 2025″ joint operation launched in late February last year, law-enforcement agencies from China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam cracked down on 8,012 telecommunication fraud and online gambling cases and arrested 14,047 criminal suspects, according to the Lancang-Mekong Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Center (LMLECC).

Additionally, 122,503 drug-related cases were busted, leading to the arrest of 139,956 suspects and the seizure of over 82 tonnes of various drugs along with 169.73 tonnes of precursor chemicals.

Law enforcement officers also cracked down on 1,017 human trafficking cases, capturing 718 suspects and rescuing 1,469 victims.

Officials from the LMC countries met Monday and Tuesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, to exchange experiences and discuss further law enforcement and security cooperation.

All parties agreed to continue joint operations to combat telecommunication fraud, the most serious transnational crime in the Lancang-Mekong region.

Established in 2017 in Kunming, the LMLECC serves as a comprehensive intergovernmental international organization for law enforcement and security cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong River basin.

Thuốc Nam cần chiếm tỷ trọng lớn trong các cơ sở y tế cổ truyền – Southern medicine needs to hold a major proportion in traditional medical facilities

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Thuốc y học cổ truyền ở Việt Nam là thuốc Bắc và thuốc Nam, hầu hết đều có nguồn gốc từ thực vật, chỉ có một số ít là từ động vật. Hiểu giản dị thì thuốc Bắc là các loại thực vật, động vật được dùng để làm thuốc được nuôi, trồng ở Trung Quốc, sau đó được nhập về Việt Nam; còn thuốc Nam là các loại thực vật, động vật được nuôi, trồng ở Việt Nam. Xu hướng hiện nay đang chuyển dịch sang sử dụng thuốc Nam (dược liệu nội địa) nhờ tính sẵn có, tác dụng tương đương với thuốc Bắc và chi phí thấp. Tuy nhiên, thị trường thuốc Bắc (nhập khẩu từ Trung Quốc) vẫn chiếm tỷ trọng lớn trong các cơ sở y tế cổ truyền.

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China just rewrote the rules of “going global”, but not the way you think

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China Focus · Posted by CatchjoeyApr 9

I was in New York a few years ago when a senior executive from a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) said something that stuck with me: “Going global is easy. Staying global is hard.” At the time, it sounded like a cliché. Today, it reads more like a policy diagnosis.

On April 8, China quietly made a move that many outside observers may underestimate: the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council established a dedicated bureau for overseas state-owned assets. On paper, it looks administrative. In reality, it signals a structural upgrade in how China thinks about globalization, not expansion first, governance second, but both simultaneously.

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China has been preparing for a global energy crisis for years. It is paying off now

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theguardian.com Fri 20 Mar 2026

As other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solar

Xi Jinping has been preparing for a crisis like this for years. China must secure its energy supply “in its own hands”, its president was reported to have said during a visit to one of its vast oilfields in 2021.

The US-Israel war on Iran plunged the Middle East into a deep conflict, with the strait of Hormuz – one of the most important waterways in global trade – all but closed and key energy facilities across the region under attack.

Oil exports from the Middle East have tumbled 61% over recent weeks, according to maritime tracking consultancy Kpler – roiling countries across Asia, which relied on the region for 59% of its crude imports in 2025, and have been left racing to conserve energy.

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Explains why China is Successful in Tech and AI

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China Focus · Posted by Antonio AlvarezMar 27

In a recent interview with Lex Fridman, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang talked about the future of AI, and one standout point was China. He said China will continue to be a serious AI innovator, in large part because much of its AI development is open-source and experimental.

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Understanding Inequality in China

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China’s inequality has steadily risen over the years, surpassing even some major Western economies, driven by market forces and urban policies

Global Policy – 23 May 2025 

Economic inequality is a global phenomenon. And while the data suggests that inequality between countries has fallen, inequality within countries has risen. China, for instance, a country with very low levels of inequality just a few decades ago, now features inequality levels that are comparable to those in the US. 

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While the world was focused on the Iran war, the Chinese Academy of Engineering removed three names from its official roster

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China – World Leader. · 

Posted by BL CheahMar 17

Small thing?

The academy lists 989 members. Almost nobody will have noticed this.

But Chinese netizens were not fooled.3 Military Tech Experts Removed From China’s Top Engineering AcademyRadar, missile, and nuclear specialists disappear from China’s top engineering body as a broader shake-up spreads across the defense industry. https://www.ntd.com/3-military-tech-experts-removed-from-chinas-top-engineering-academy_1132476.html

These three people were military tech experts. One a top radar scientist, one a top missile guidance specialist, and one a nuclear weapons engineer. And there is an ongoing purge in China’s defense industry.

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It turns out that China does have some serious heft to retaliate against Panama.

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Posted by BL CheahMar 15

Nice! Well done China!

It turns out that China does have some serious heft to retaliate against Panama. And the best thing is, the Panamanians can do practically nothing to retaliate against this. Anything they try is likely to cause more problems for themselves.

Those who have followed me should know that I posted about Panama’s actions having consequences. When they screwed over the biggest Chinese player, the port operator itself, it sent a chilling feeling down other Chinese players in the trade.

For instance, you can see this link to my previous post:https://qr.ae/pCfYTw

CK Hutchinson is a highly professional and respected port operator. Decades in the trade. Operates 53 ports across 24 countries. Decades of experience in Panama with billions invested.

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How High-Speed Rail is Reshaping Chinese Regional Air Travel

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cirium.com August 20, 2025

China’s high-speed rail network is reshaping regional air travel, challenging short-haul aviation and redefining how passengers move across the country. Yuanfei Zhao (Scott) explores the co-evolution of rail and air, and examines the implications for airline strategy, fleet demand and the future of China’s regional aviation market.

China’s transportation landscape has undergone a quiet but profound transformation, one that is redefining how people move across the country and recalibrating the roles of air and rail in the national mobility ecosystem. At the heart of this shift is the rapid rise of high-speed rail (HSR), which has not only captured market share from short-haul aviation but has fundamentally altered traveller behaviour, airline network strategies, and urban connectivity.

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It’s not China suddenly becoming greater

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Posted by Paul DenlingerFeb 3

It is more about the US’s decline rapidly accelerating and going out of control.

China made a lot of right moves, and the US made all the wrong moves because China made llong-term decisions, while the US always chose short-term expediencies.

Short-term expediencies eventually led to the US running out of road.

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In 2000, China’s president, Jiang Zemin, sat down for a rare interview with American television broadcast

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CBSnews.com On the eve of his visit to the United States, China’s president, Jiang Zemin, sat down for a rare interview with Mike Wallace.

In a wide-ranging and surprisingly frank interview, Jiang talked about many topics, including relations between the United States and China, Tiananmen Square and American morals.

Britainnica.com

Jiang Zemin (born August 17, 1926, Yangzhou, Jiangsu province, China—died November 30, 2022, Shanghai, China) was a Chinese official who was general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP; 1989–2002) and president of China (1993–2003).

Jiang joined the CCP in 1946 and graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University the following year with a degree in electrical engineering. He worked in several factories as an engineer before receiving further technical training in the Soviet Union about 1955. He subsequently headed technological research institutes in various parts of China. In 1980 Jiang became vice minister of the state commission on imports and exports. Two years later he became vice minister of the electronics industry and from 1983 to 1985 was its minister. He had meanwhile become a member of the Central Committee of the CCP in 1982. Named mayor of Shanghai in 1985, he joined the Political Bureau in 1987.

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Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore about Americans – Interview in 1965

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Footage of an interview of Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore, conducted by Australian and British journalists.

Quote: “If the British withdraw, I am prepared to go on with the Austrialians and the New Zealanders. But, I am not prepared to go on with Americans. ….I think they are highly intelligent, often well-meaning, people, and some of their leaders like Mr. Kennedy, the late President, had signs, of growing greatness, depth. But, by and large, the administration lacks depth. But, by and wisdom which comes out of an accumulation of knowledge of human beings and human situations over a long period of time. That is lacking, and it is not their fault what have they got? Three, four hundred years of history, and they have become a nations just recently. I will tell you this. I have had three experiences, only three experiences, with the Americans. And, they did not intend any harm in each one of them. But, the tragedy was; they did real harm.”

Lee Kuan Yew was 44 at the time. He revealed an attempt in 1960 by an agent of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to bribe an official of the Singaporean Special Branch to report on the activities of the Singaporean state. He also revealed that the American agent was arrested and threatened with prosecution. But the case did not come to open court. He told the journalists that he sent a message to the American government, which he accused of “lacking finesse”, to give Singapore $100 million dollars for economic development. However, the Americans responded by offering Lee and his political Party $10 Million. He refused.

Read full interview: National Archive of Singapore TRANSCRIPT OF AN INTERVIEW BY FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS WITH THE PRIME MINISTER OF SINGAPORE, MR. LEE KUAN YEW, HELD AT TV SINGAPURA AT 1130 HOURS ON 30TH AUGUST

What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change?

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carbonbrief.org

“Steady and pragmatic decarbonisation, rapid clean-energy expansion combined with cautious emission targets, continued coal use to protect energy security and industrial growth.”

China’s leadership has published a draft of its 15th five-year plan setting the strategic direction for the nation out to 2030, including support for clean energy and energy security.

The plan sets a target to cut China’s “carbon intensity” by 17% over the five years from 2026-30, but also changes the basis for calculating this key climate metric.

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