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There is a seductive logic to treating foreign policy like a business. Cut the deal, extract the value, move on to the next counterparty.
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China Treats Diplomacy Like a Ledger. It Won’t Add Up
There is a seductive logic to treating foreign policy like a business. Cut the deal, extract the value, move on to the next counterparty.
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In the long shadow of Afghanistan’s wars, Pakistan has long stood as both refuge and pressure valve. Generations of Afghans have crossed the border
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