12/17/2025

Authors & Contributors

Aaron Glasserman
Chinese Concessions on Trade Indicate Restraint, Not Weakness
Aaron Zhang
Beyond Isolation: The Case of CATL and US-China Tech Cooperation
The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act is Not Enough
Alexander Görlach
Understanding the Putin-Xi Pivot in Ukraine
Alice Liu
Exclusive Interview | Lee Jones: The Contemporary Cold War is the “Neoliberal Cold War,” with Deep Intertwining Between the US and China, Making Decoupling Difficult
Exclusive Interview | The Great Transformation: Westad Analyzes the Chaos and “Missed Opportunities” of the 1970s
Interview with Rana Mitter: How China’s WWII Memory Fuels New Nationalism
A Tough Job to Keep: The Fates of China’s International Relations Ministers
An Interview with Pascale Massot on Power, Vulnerability, and Market Disruption

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Allan Benedict C. Solacito
Love in the Time of Aid Cuts: On Queer Citizenship and the Politics of Aid
Andrew Chubb
China’s Overseas Influence Operations: Disaggregating the Risks
Andrew F. Cooper
Chinese Public Opinion on China’s Foreign Aid: Trade-offs or General Discontent?
Ann-Alice Tichá
Politics Out the Way! Towards a Deeper U.S.-China Green Cooperation—2023 China Focus Essay 1990 Institute First Prize Winner
Antonina Luszczykiewicz-Mendis
When China Rules the Rivers
Baogang Guo
Understanding Legislative Trends: The 117th U.S. Congress on U.S.-China Relations
Bikai Chen
The U.S. Factor in China-Philippines Relations
An Interview with Carla Freeman: U.S. and NATO Positions in Asia
Significance and Challenges: U.S.-China Cooperation on the Fentanyl Issue
Interview with James Steinberg: The Significance of Strategic Reassurance for U.S.-China Relations
Interview with Andrew Mertha: The Past, Present and Future of U.S.-China Relations

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Brantly Womack
Brantly Womack: Reflections on a Recent Trip to Beijing
Brian Wong
Trying Times for Track II Diplomacy
How Moderates can Mediate U.S.-China Tensions
Will Xi’s Calls for ‘A More Lovable China’ Succeed? – Three Critical Considerations
Chavi Hillman-Emina
Chinese Reactions to Attempted Insurrection in Brazil and the US
China-Focus-Editor
The 2026 Jimmy Carter Forum
Charting the Future: U.S.–China Relations in an Era of Global Realignment
Webinar: The $100K Visa Wall
Webinar: The World According to the Chinese People
U.S.-China Relations & Atlanta’s Chinese Diaspora 

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Chris Mao
Damocles’s Switchboard w/ Meicen Sun
Integrating China into Global Sustainable Development: An Interview with Huang Hongxiang
A Progressive China Policy: An Interview with Jake Werner Part 2
What Trump’s Return Means for U.S.-China Relations
A Progressive China Policy: An Interview with Jake Werner Part 1

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Christopher Carothers
Why Polarization Won’t Stop Washington’s New Bipartisan Consensus on China
Why Chinese Intimidation Unites South Korea but Divides Taiwan
Christopher Vassallo
China Eyes the Soviet Demise: CCP Perspectives on the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 1989-2021
Da Wei
Stability Without Improvement: Professor Da Wei on the Risky Equilibrium of US-China Relations
Damian Raess
Americans Secretly Agree about Why They’d Want to Ban Social Media Apps
Daniel Ping Yu
Reflecting on the Legacy of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: A Resonant Journey to China in 2002
David Brenner
Myanmar’s Escalating Civil War and the Limits of Chinese Intervention
David Bulman
How Security Fears Shape Public Views of the US-China Trade War
David Cowhig
Mistranslations: A Man Hears What He Wants to Hear and Disregards the Rest
David Fields
China’s Plans for Greenland & Other Myths
Banning Tik Tok Makes the U.S. Less Safe
David M. Lampton
Where from Here in U.S.-China Relations: Learning from the Past to Guide the Future
A Speech by David M. Lampton: The Carter Legacy with China and Beyond
David M. Lampton: Reflections on Henry Kissinger
David M. McCourt
Trump 2.0 Has Created New Bedfellows Among America’s China Watchers, But Competition Remains the Dominant View
Diao Daming
America’s Future: How Beijing is Planning Its Next Move
Diego Ge
An Interview with Eli Friedman on Transnational Solidarity and Left Internationalism
Democracy in Blue Jeans w/ Larry Diamond
Taiwan After Trump w/ Amanda Hsiao
The Southern Great Wall on the China-Myanmar Border
The Only Chinese Bookstore in D.C. w/ Yu Miao

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Edison Chen
To Take Gaokao or Not To Take Gaokao
Assessing Peaceful Unification w/ Xin Qiang
Xi’s Confidants
Talking It Out w/ Ryan Hass
After Engagement w/ Orville Schell

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Elliot Ji
Wargaming Taiwan
Challenges to the Development of a China-led International Normative Order
Positioning America’s Strength: Speak Realities, not Opinions
Emerson Tsui
Two Steps from the Thucydides Trap: A Critical Warning on U.S.-China Relations
Who is Xie Feng? China’s Next Ambassador to the U.S.
Fred Teng
US Must be Consistent to Reclaim Climate Leadership Role from China
Furqan Khan
Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on US-China-Pakistan Relations
Understanding Biden’s ‘Asia Czar’ on China
US-China-Pakistan: Aid and Interests in Afghanistan
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Understanding American and Pakistani Perceptions
Grace Osborn
China In The World, Three Years Later w/ Ban Wang
Gracie Miller
U.S.-China Global Health Collaboration
Graham Revare
Green Protectionism: A Dangerous Consensus—2023 China Focus Essay The Jimmy Carter First Prize Winner
Guo Wu
In Remembrance of Professor Douglas Reynolds, My Advisor and Mentor
He Yafei
He Yafei: America must abandon its ‘shining city on the hill’ thinking
Henry O'Connor
The History of the Thai-Chinese and the Chinese-Thai w/ Sittithep Eaksittipong
In The Dragon’s Shadow w/ Sebastian Strangio
The Dragon, The Bear, and The Eagle w/ Pavel Devyatkin
Biden’s Bloc Party is Over. Stop it.
Socialism’s Trillion Dollar Chinese Characteristic w/ Zoe Liu

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Hongying Wang
Chinese Public Opinion on China’s Foreign Aid: Trade-offs or General Discontent?
Hu Wei
Remembering Joseph Fewsmith: The Passing of a Generation of China Hands
Is Trump Trying to Align with Russia Against China?
Hu Wei: Farewell to Total War, Legitimizing “Targeted Decapitation” — Reflections on War Paradigms and War Ethics
Likes for Taylor, Disdain for Musk
Hu Wei: The Time History Has Left China Is Running Out

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Hu Xijin
Hu Xijin: How to Promote Orderly Openness and Freedom
Hunter Marston
Vietnam Navigates Global Frictions by Doubling Down on Hedging
J. Tedford Tyler
Cross-Strait Relations: The Search for Serenity within Incongruity
Jack Amerson
U.S.-China Relations: Is there a Cold War 2.0?
Jack Mageau
Results of CIUA’s Chinese Citizens’ Global Perceptions Survey
Jack Zhang
Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: U.S. Multinational Firms in China and the Decoupling Debate
Jade Zhou
Dr. Dalton Lin on the Triangular Security Dynamics between Beijing, Taipei, and Washington
Dr. Alexander Bolton on the Intersection of Congressional Politics and China
Where Performance Meets Pandemic: Bin Xu on anti-COVID Policy in the U.S. and China
James B. Heimowitz
Vision and Pathways for U.S.-China Youth Exchanges in a New Era
Jason Zhou
Speaking from a Position of Strength: Chinese Scholars on China’s Grand Strategy
Jesse Marks
Why Third Parties Matter in the U.S.-China Relationship
Jessica C. Teets
The Promise of People-to-People Exchange in Sino-US Relations
Jia Wenshan
A “New Paradigm of Engagement” between the U.S. and China
Jiachen Shi
Book Review: The Centennial Global Strategy of the United States
China’s Retaliatory Sanctions Strategy
A Citizen Diplomacy Crisis? A Look into the Stabbing Incident in Northeast China
Behind Closed Doors: U.S. Tactics in Backroom Diplomacy with China
An Interview with Dr. Chen Jian: Zhou Enlai: A Life

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Jian Zhang
Xi-Biden Summit Creates Hope for Climate Cooperation
Jin Canrong
Jin Canrong: Abandoning Taiwan Is Not Yet the Mainstream View in the U.S., But China Must Prepare for the Worst
Jinghao Zhou
The Untested Path of U.S.-China Rivalry Under Trump 2.0
The Case Against an Imminent War on Taiwan
The “China Card” Remains the Core of Translating U.S. Domestic Issues into Foreign Policy
How Might China Recalibrate Its Policy Toward the U.S. if Harris is Elected?
Strategic Calculations: China’s Dilemma Between Trump and Harris

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John F. Copper
Taiwan: President Lai’s Trials and Tribulations
Juan Zhang
Interview with Zhou Wenxing: Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in the Next Few Years—Is War Inevitable?
Japan’s Prime Minister Takaichi Finally Says Something Close to What Beijing Wants to Hear
In Call With Trump, Xi Says Taiwan Issue Extends Beyond China’s Internal Affairs
Takaichi’s Taiwan Remarks Ignite East Asia, Triggering Fierce China–Japan Confrontation
Throttling the Nationalist Spirit w/ Frances Yaping Wang

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Ka Zeng
Americans Secretly Agree about Why They’d Want to Ban Social Media Apps
Kacie Miura
Navigating the Securitization of the U.S.-China Economic Relationship: Why Dialogue is Still Important
Kai Jin
Echoes of Rhetoric: Tracing the Ideology Behind Trump’s Return Through American History X
Katerina Yang
Politics Out the Way! Towards a Deeper U.S.-China Green Cooperation—2023 China Focus Essay 1990 Institute First Prize Winner
Kathryn Putz
Ryan Hass on His New Book “Stronger”
Event Summary: Can US-China People-to-People Exchange Stop the Dangerous Slide of the Bilateral Relationship?
US-China Misperception and the Rule of Law: An Interview with Jian Xu
US-China Misperception and Educational Exchange: An Interview with Zoe Jordan
USCNPM Event: The Trajectory of Chinese Higher Education

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Kay Zou
China Vérité: Ying Qian on Documentary Cinema, Part 1
An Interview with Ying Zhu: Chinese Filmmaking, Hollywood, and U.S.-China Relations
China’s Retaliatory Sanctions Strategy
A Citizen Diplomacy Crisis? A Look into the Stabbing Incident in Northeast China
An Interview with Dr. Chen Jian: Zhou Enlai: A Life

View all posts by Kay Zou
Kelly Zhuang
Africa and the U.S.-China Rivalry w/ Maria Repnikova
Kerry Brown
Wang Huning and the Power of Chinese Culture
‘Tread Softly for You Tread on My Dreams:’ How the U.S., Europe, and China Fail to Take Each Other’s Values Seriously
Kimball Chen
China’s Internet Evolution: Sitting down with Guo Shaohua
RECAP: Zhang Weiwei on Mao Zedong Thought
The Politburo’s Recent Study Session: Who is Zhang Weiwei?
Kristina Honour
The International Efforts to Combat Myanmar’s Growing Humanitarian Crisis
Sino-African Relations and Chinese Lending: An Interview with Kevin Acker
RECAP: Institute for Peace and Diplomacy Panel on the Chinese Challenge to the U.S.
Beyond Non-Interference: China’s Motivations and Interests in Supporting Syria’s Assad Regime
Kristy Bryant
USCNPM July/August Newsletter
USCNPM June Newsletter
KS Liu
Why the U.S. Can’t Break Free from Its Dependence on China’s Rare Earths
A U.S.-Europe Rift Fuels Closer U.S.-Taiwan Relations?
Leonardo Bruni
Unable or Unwilling? The Self-Imposed Limits of Chinese Conflict Mediation
Li Cheng
The Road to Win Chinese American Voters
Li Wei
Managing Rivalry: China’s Strategy for Coexistence with the U.S.
Lincoln Hines
Public Opinion and China’s Space Ambitions
LIU Weidong
What Should the Other Side Do?
Mabel Lu Miao
Vision and Pathways for U.S.-China Youth Exchanges in a New Era
Mac Fabens
Biden’s China Team: Who is Rush Doshi?
Mallie Prytherch
The Road to Win Chinese American Voters
Matt Geraci
Sincerity and Tolerance of Criticism are Needed to Mend U.S.-China Ties
Matthew DeButts
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter Data Set: A Few Insights
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter Dataset: A Few Insights
Meicen Sun
Winners Can’t Take All in AI
Merlin Boone
A Tale of Misadventure on China’s Atomic Belt and Road
Miao Lu
From Beijing to Beijing: Thirty Years of Progress and Challenges in Global Gender Equality
Michael Cerny
Under Pressure: Attitudes Towards China Among American Foreign Policy Professionals
Stephen Fisher on Global Climate Opinion
Public Opinion Propaganda: Be Cautious of CGTN Surveys
3 Reasons to Ignore that Twitter (or Weibo) Poll
Sam Hogg on China, the Tory election, and Britain’s Transatlantic Ties

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Michelle Lai
China’s Best Friend in the EU: The Potential for Sino-Hungarian Cooperation—2023 China Focus Essay Contest Runner-Up
Minjun Hong
Looking back on Katherine Tai’s Speech
Factories and the Class Divide: An Interview with Marc Blecher
Miranda Wilson
An Interview with Graham Allison on a Trump-Xi Deal
Engagement is Not Dead w/ Terry Lautz and Deborah Davis
Labubu and the Decline of American Cultural Hegemony
Dark Side of the Moon
Chinese Thirdspace & A Third Political Route w/ Jianmei Liu

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Mustapha Dukuly
The Future of U.S.-China Educational Exchange
Nick Zeller
Empires Age Like Dynamite
New Chinese Public Opinion Survey
The World Will Just Get Dumber
Sovereignty, Security, & U.S.-China Relations
Biden’s Bloc Party is Over. Stop it.

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Niño Ryan Embestro
Quiet Hedging: Indo-Pacific Middle Powers’ Strategic Deterrence
Olivia Moody
Recent Visits to China by American Officials: Unpacking Secretary Janet Yellen’s and Secretary Antony Blinken’s Diplomatic Ventures
REPORT: Finding Firmer Ground: Cold War Case Studies and Chinese Perspectives
A Look Back in Time: Experts Reflect on the State of U.S-China Exchanges Since 1985
An Interview with Denis Simon: The Past, Present, and Future of the U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement
Osebhahiemen B. Okooboh
Oriana Skylar Mastro on US-China Engagement and War in Ukraine
Was the Ugandan Airport Loan a Debt Trap?
The 2022 Beijing Olympics Games: A Sure Win for Athletes?
Paige Alexander
China Can Play a Vital Role to End War in Ukraine
Paul Musgrave
Americans Secretly Agree about Why They’d Want to Ban Social Media Apps
Payton Morlock
Kingdom in the Middle: China as an International Mediator
Penelope B. Prime
Review: Desmond Shum’s Red Roulette
Petra Alderman
The U.S.-China Rivalry is Not a Cypher for the World
Qin Pang
Youth Attitudes and U.S.-China Competition: The Effect of Relative Power
Raphael J. Piliero
Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Assessing China’s Role
Raven Witherspoon
Whiplash: An International Student’s Account of China’s COVID U-Turn
Rendy Pahrun Wadipalapa
The Price of Tomorrow
Ring Feng
Chinese Narratives about U.S. Politics: A Case Study on Chinese Social Media’s Treatment of the Kevin McCarthy Crisis
Chinese Society on the SVB Bankruptcy
Rob La Terza
Looking Back on the Carter Center’s Conversation with Qin Gang
A Third Taiwan Strait Crisis? Examining Increased US-China Tensions over Taiwan
Sabine Mokry
Grand Strategy and National Interests: Analyzing the Underpinnings of Sino-U.S. Strategic Competition
What’s Lost in Translation? Discrepancies in Official Translations of China’s Foreign Policy Statements
Samuel M. Seitz
Wargaming Taiwan
How to Prevent a US-China Nuclear Confrontation
Sarah Stahlman
RECAP: Peter Martin’s “China’s Civilian Army” Explores “Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”
China’s Peaking Power: An Interview with Michael Beckley
Holding Up Half the Sky: Feminist IR and the Thucydides Trap
RECAP: Shambaugh on “China’s Leaders: From Mao to Now” at NCUSCR
Scott Singer
3 Reasons to Ignore that Twitter (or Weibo) Poll
Sean Higgins
Taiwanese Society and Cross-Strait Relations: An Interview with Shelley Rigger
Ambassador Cui Tiankai Bids Farewell
RECAP: NCUSCR Panel on Chinese Influence in Higher Education
Sean Stein
Sean Stein’s Recommendations for China’s Economic Policy under Trump 2.0
SHI Peipei
What Should the Other Side Do?
Shivam Mani
Who is Li Yi? Inflammatory Commentator on Cross-Strait Relations
Shoitsu Nakayama
Transformation of Chinese Society: An Interview with James Nolt
Sietse Goffard
50 Years Later: What China and the U.S. Can Learn from Ping Pong
Stefan Vladisavljev
The Cost of Disengagement: How Serbia Became China’s Strategic Win in Europe
Stephen Orlins
A Speech by Stephen A. Orlins: Jimmy Carter Forum on U.S.-China Relations
Suisheng Zhao
President Trump 2.0 has not been an Orthodox China Hawk
Taiyi Sun
Why Polarization Won’t Stop Washington’s New Bipartisan Consensus on China
The World from Multiple Angles
How Capable Are the U.S. and Japan of Intervening in a Taiwan Conflict?
Thomas des Garets Geddes
How do Chinese Scholars View Xi Jinping’s Visit to Europe and China’s EU strategy?
Tom Watkins
The Dangers of Election Year China Bashing
For Xi after the Party Congress: More Power, More Challenges
To Strengthen Bilateral Ties, US-China Educational Exchange Must Go Deeper
Competing to Win: the Biden Administration’s Policy on China
Tyler Quillen
Interview with Dr. Joel Wuthnow: The Risk of “Accidental War” in the Taiwan Strait and the Path to De-escalation
Interview with Susannah Patton: How does Southeast Asia survive in the face of U.S.-China Competition
The Taiwan-North Korea Dynamic: An Interview with Dr. Shuxian Luo
A Tough Job to Keep: The Fates of China’s International Relations Ministers
Interview with James Siebens on Taiwan and China’s Strategy

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U.S.-China Perception Monitor
China’s Resolve to Safeguard Nuclear Non-Proliferation
The Trump 2.0 Administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
President Carter’s Legacy and US-China Relations: The Jimmy Carter Forum on US-China Relations
Untangling China’s Reconstruction of Angola— 2023 China Focus Essay Contest Runner-Up
USCNPM Archive
Xi Jinping Thought and Why It Matters
Wang Jisi’s Remarks at the 10th World Peace Forum in Beijing
50th Anniversary Exhibition: US-China Ping Pong Diplomacy
Who is Hu Xijin?
The Future of People-to-People Exchange with China

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USCNPM Staff
Kamala on China
Emerging Voices for U.S.-China Cooperation 2025
Li Ruiqiu: How Chinese People See the World and Their Own Country
2023 China Focus Essay Contest Winners
Who is David Martin? COVID Conspiracist takes Chinese Social Media by Storm

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Vera Xiao
Wang Fei-Ling on the China Order
Wang Hao: Political Polarization as Seen in the U.S. Midterm Election
Wang Jisi
Wang Jisi： Has the Cold War Really Ended?
WANG Jun
What Should the Other Side Do?
Wang Peng
The Departed and the Living
Wang Zichen
Why Every China Watcher Must Be on WeChat
Wei Wei Chen
The UN, AI, and Climate Change: An Interview with Climind Founder Hanyuan Karen Wang
William Peng
Chinese Society on the SVB Bankruptcy
Wu Xinbo
Wu Xinbo: China’s Strength——The Key to U.S. De-escalation
Xin Sichao
A War China Didn’t Fight but Still Lost: Beijing’s Strategic Setback after Ukraine
Xin Tong
Yuhua Wang on US-China Relations and the Legacies of Mao and 1989
Examining China’s Foreign Policy and Global Ambitions: A Book Discussion on Dr. Suisheng Zhao’s The Dragon Roars Back
Dr. Hak Yin Li on China’s Foreign Policy
Xiao Ma on Localized Bargaining in China’s Infrastructure Development
Xu Zeyu
The Summit for Democracy: Power By Example or an Example of Power?
The View from Beijing: America’s Mirage of ‘Strength’
Xuezhou Han
Significance and Challenges: U.S.-China Cooperation on the Fentanyl Issue
Yang Liu
Bridging the Gap, One Word at a Time
Yanqiu Zheng
Who’s Afraid of Engagement?
Yasheng Huang
Reflections on “Can India Overtake China?”
Yasser Ali Nasser
China, India, and the United States in a Multipolar World
Yawei Liu
President Trump’s  Quiet Diplomacy Behind U.S.–China–Japan Phone Calls
Xi Jinping and Four U.S. Presidents: Personal Diplomacy Through a Decade of Change
Cultural Revolution Echoes Heard in America w/ David M. Lampton
DeepSeek and U.S.-China AI Competition w/ Brian Wong
Interview With Kerry Brown: Is The West Prepared to Accept China?

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Yilun Zhang
Taking Down “Made-in-China” Cranes Cannot Address U.S. Weakness in The Shipping Industry
Yingyi Tan
Eat More Mapo Tofu w/ Fuchsia Dunlop
“The Little Ball that Moves the Big Ball”: Commemorating the 53rd Anniversary of “Ping Pong Diplomacy”
Living U.S.-China Relations: Anecdotes From David M. Lampton
An Interview with David M. Lampton: Living U.S.-China Relations
An Interview with Sarah Mellors Rodriguez: Reproductive Realities in China

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Yuning Liu
Xi-Biden Summit Creates Hope for Climate Cooperation
Zhai Xiang
Beyond “60 Minutes”: China-U.S. Relations Need Greater Understanding, Not a Battle of Ideas
The Summit for Democracy: Power By Example or an Example of Power?
The View from Beijing: America’s Mirage of ‘Strength’
Zhang Jiadong
U.S. Think Tanks Need Less Confrontational Thinking on China
Zhiyuan Zhou
Preventing Spina Bifida: A U.S.-China Collaboration Success Story
Zichen Wang
Bridging the Gap, One Word at a Time
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