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Beijing Passes a Counterespionage Law in the Face of Multiplying Threats

China’s revised Counterespionage Law is part of a broader plan to combat threats to state and Party power, presaging greater reputational and data privacy risks for foreign companies, particularly as Beijing’s willingness to economically retaliate against the West slowly grows. On April 26, the Chinese legislature revised the Counterespionage Law …

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The historic US-Saudi relationship cannot bounce back

“Our allies in the Gulf no longer honor the deal that was made decades ago even though we still have a big physical military presence in the Gulf, bigger than ever before, and we keep giving Gulf nations a pass on human rights violations. Too often our Middle East allies …

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