But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its military overreach. It is a globalized, tech-powered, civilizational state ...

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In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon.

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What they didn’t and couldn’t know then was that what he calls their Gefangenshaft–their imprisonment–in prisoner-of-war camps deep inside the Soviet Union would last not days, weeks ...

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On April 1, Song Zhiyong, Administrator of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), met in Beijing with Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency ...