Jonathan Cheng

@LibraryJournal @KirkusReviews @MikeCosper @hesp365 @JaccoZed @nknewsorg @JulianGewirtz @AsiaSociety @orvilleschell @alecash @WEAI_Columbia @sarah_kovner @JoeTerwilliger @ianbremmer @gzeromedia @LizEconomy @PescaGist @pescami @FT @TheWorld @melissakchan @junghpak1 @tongscott @Mister_G_2 @AriusDerr @KoreaEconInst @AtlanticCouncil @PublishersWkly @AirMailWeekly @NahlahAyed @CBC @LynnThoman @ClementeLisi @ReligionMag @PresbyHistory @NRO @SinicaPodcast @clearroads @commonwealmag @JNilssonWright @Changxche @quillandquire @evangelisch_de @jordanschneider @alexludoboyd @AmPrestigePod @tunkuv @lithub @Sino_NK “The Cundill History Prize, one of the world’s leading prizes for a work of history written in, or translated into, English, has today announced the three finalists for 2026.”
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China’s Push for Influence in the South Pacific Is Running Into Resistance—Washington gets boost in strategic islands as political winds shift and Australia pursues aggressive diplomacy
@austinramzy
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“Why do some governments endure…while others collapse? For much of the post-Cold War era, the answer seemed simple: democracies were legitimate, and authoritarian states were living on borrowed time. Recent history has complicated that story.”
@uscnpm
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China Producer Inflation Accelerates to Over Four-Year High—Consumer-price index rose 0.7% from a year earlier, slowing from September
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FT: One of China’s biggest cities, home to a sprawling illicit trade in products from iPhones to knock-off Prada handbags, is engaged in the clean-up job of a lifetime as it prepares for a summit that will bring international scrutiny.
@WillLangley96
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