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Fixing the problems in China’s economy entails risks to the Communist Party’s power that the president simply isn’t willing to take.
Years of dysfunction in the trade bloc are restricting Brazil’s global ambitions, and it needs a way out.
Washington’s plans to withdraw from Syria will pave the way for Ankara’s offensive on Kurdish-held territory east of the Euphrates River.
As the two try to deter each other, they may instead move closer to war.
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