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China'S Self Reliance Strategy: Energy, Trade, Power

How China's party-led planning stitches together industrial policy, energy security, and coercive trade into a strategy for reducing dependence and projecting influence abroad.

6 booksJuly 6, 2026

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China Started Preparing for an Energy Crisis Long Before the Iran Warnytimes.com China in Latin America: February 2026cfr.org Five takeaways for US policymakers about China’s new five-year development planatlanticcouncil.org

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