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Charles Horner is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is author of Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Volume I:Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (2009) and Volume II: Grandeur and Peril in the Next World Order (2015); and A China Scholar’s Long March: Writings and Reflections, 1978–2015 (2018).
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A Long, Twilight Struggle
Americans should bear in mind that the foreign policy of the Chinese Communist Party is animated by the regime’s struggle to control its own people.