Silk & Steel
The Expat EditThe most interesting Chinese debates on geopolitics, strategy, and world affairs, translated and curated for English readers.
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The Riyadh Airport Strike China Saw as Payback, Not Terror
Above: Smoke rises over Terminal 3 at King Khalid International Airport on Saturday afternoon, in a still from eyewitness video circulating online.
On Saturday afternoon a missile struck the passenger terminal at King Khalid International...
Berlin and Paris Want a Trade “Kill Switch.” China’s Internet Shrugs.
Above: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the Munich Security Conference in February. Their joint letter marks Germany’s shift toward the French line on China.
Germany and France have asked the Europea...
A Plague Scare Is Spreading Through Siberia. China Is Silent
Above: Daria Shipilova, 28, the laboratory technician whose death on October 2 set off the alarm. Photo from her social media via East2West.
Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old technician at a plague research institute in Irkutsk, fell ill on a...
Should Beijing Have Saved Lula?
Above: Lula’s official third-term portrait. He goes into the October 25 runoff two points behind.
Brazil voted on Sunday and nobody won. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the convicted and barred former president, took about 47 percent; Pre...
China Watches the West Burn Its Emergency Oil
Above: The Bryan Mound site of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve near Freeport, Texas, where crude is stored in underground salt caverns.
After an emergency video call convened by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, the Group of Seven agreed t...
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Silk & Steel translates and curates Chinese debates on geopolitics, military strategy, and world affairs, giving English readers a real pulse on how Chinese people are interpreting war, power, and the changing global order.
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