Peter Alan Dutton

How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City

"Many hometown associations have become useful tools of China’s consulate in Midtown Manhattan.... Consulate officials have enlisted them to intimidate politicians who support Taiwan or cross Beijing’s other red lines."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

Arctic as Mediterranean?

Aiming at the Dollar, China Makes a Pitch for Its Currency

“The governor of China’s central bank outlined a plan on Wednesday for a global financial system that relies on several major currencies, not just the dollar, as Beijing steps up its campaign to weaken the U.S. dollar’s primacy.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...

"A good political system is one that places restraints on our darker instincts, while a despotic totalitarian regime deliberately cultivates them. For the evil in human nature is the sustenance of all authoritarian rule."

China’s Chokehold on This Obscure Mineral Threatens the West’s Militaries

China’s Chokehold on This Obscure Mineral Threatens the West’s Militaries
… “For more than a decade, the United States has failed to develop an alternative to China’s supply of a specific kind of rare earth crucial for the manufacture of magnets [and] military gear.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Germany Troops Lithuania Post-WWII Deployment Abroad Germany has begun long-term deployment of troops in Lithuania in its first permanent stationing of soldiers abroad since World War II.

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China accuses Australia of deliberate provocation in South China Sea China accused Australia on Friday of deliberately provoking it with a maritime patrol in the disputed South China Sea this week, saying the latter was spreading "false narratives", though Australia maintained its action adhered to international law.

China accused Australia of deliberately provoking it with a maritime patrol in the disputed South China Sea this week, saying the latter was spreading ‘false narratives,’ though Australia maintained its action adhered to international law reut.rs/3CZ1Spa

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