Bequelin & @yaqiu.bsky.social argue that Trump’s China policy has weakened scrutiny of Beijing’s repression: cuts to RFA disrupted rare uncensored reporting in #Tibetan and #Uyghur, while defunding human rights groups reduced capacity to monitor Chinese propaganda.
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China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle
In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front.