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China’s National People’s Congress wrapped up on Monday after announcing a host of top officials that will assist Xi.

When the Lithuanian government last year permitted the establishment of a Taiwanese Representative Office on its soil — a name more suggestive of Taiwan’s nationhood than Beijing’s preferred formulation of “Taipei Representative Office” — a long line of precedent suggested that it could weather the countermeasures it would face from China. As Beijing has a long history of employing unofficial bilateral trade restrictions to bully countries that defy it, the natural next step appeared to be two-way economic coercion, which would be limited by Lithuania’s scarce economic links wit...

May 10th, 2021 3 min read COMMENTARY BY Director, Asian Studies Center As Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, Walter Lohman oversees the think tank’s oldest research center. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, April 23, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Anna Moneymaker-Pool / Getty Images Key Takeaways “The notion that Beijing continues to seek concessions from the United States in return for China’s cooperation on climate change i...

Walter Lohman On Taiwan: Climate change, Taiwan and US foreign policy Two weeks ago, according to the New York Times, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) told a virtual audience convened by the Council on Foreign Relations that cooperation with the US on climate change depends on the US approach to several hot-button Chinese interests. For anyone following the way Beijing conducts diplomacy, this is no surprise. Connor Swank, an analyst at the Center for Advanced China Research, which systematically examines official Chinese statements, puts it this way: “Unfortun...