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Trump’s Taiwan retreat tests his chief China hawk’s influence
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Politico Europe · East Asia
Ivan Kanapathy, a longtime China hawk, is a top Asia adviser at the National Security Council at a time when the Trump administration has been particularly conciliatory with Beijing.
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