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Not all trillions—debts, valuations, investments—are created equal. Huge nominal numbers often obscure the institutions and incentives that produced them.
While China and the United States vie for power globally, Beijing seems to have it in for Japan, and Tokyo has yet to responded fully.
The Chinese Communist Party has always been driven by a fear of things it cannot completely control.
