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China would rather be feared than defied
Nationalist outrage has often served China well over the years, but that may be changing
CHINA HAS an anger-management problem, at least when dealing with small and mid-size Western democracies. The fate of Lithuania, a European Union member on the shores of the Baltic Sea, is a case in point.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Why China gets so angry”
From the August 28th 2021 edition
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