China is still on track to be top dog
ensions between China and the West are rising all the time. Over the last week, the country has been launching a series of alarmingly aggressive military exercises around Taiwan. Even if that does not lead to an invasion, or a blockade, it is a scary escalation of the simmering conflict in the Pacific. In the background, China has been actively supporting Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, while Xi Jinping’s
