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China's strategic ambitions, Taiwan's precarity, the Korean peninsula and the Indo-Pacific contest between Washington and Beijing. Coverage focuses on the decisions being made here that will shape the international order for decades.

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The Ledger

He Crossed the Bridge. China Built It. North Korea Made Them Wait.

Kim Jong Un crossed the New Yalu River Bridge into Dandong on October 24. China built the bridge in 2014. North Korea made them wait 12 years. He toured a Korean War memorial and a bus factory, called the friendship invincible, and went home. The bridge is now open.