An inflatable Labubu in Victoria Harbour on October 25, 2025, in Hong Kong. | Hou Yu/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images
To say that China had a successful 2025 would be an understatement.
According to President Donald Trump’s campaign agenda and early months of his second administration, the United States was going to be tough on China. Trump went heavy on tariffs, limited chip exports, and tried to assert dominance over the country.
A year later, you’d have trouble finding evidence of it.
Instead, China has prospered by exercising hard economic power over the US — by wieldi...
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