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Mexico seems ready to line up with efforts by the United States and Canada to limit Chinese imports and influence in North America.

Chinese President Xi Jinping looking less than confident. (Photo by Ken Ishii-Pool/Getty Images) Getty Images

Beijing’s obsession with security and police action has done damage to the nation’s economic needs as well as the CCP’s ambitions.

Beijing disappointed those hoping for urgent economic stimulus, offering only a financial gimmick to delay the day of reckoning for local government finances.

Beijing must brace for it: Trump will almost surely raise U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports.

China has floated a $2 billion bonds in Saudi Arabia. That Beijing chose Riyadh and denominated the bonds in U.S. dollars says a lot.

Beijing is still all in on the nation’s immense high-speed rail system despite China’s economic woes.

Beijing's increasing dominance in Hong Kong is driving out the rest of the world and detracting from the city's global significance.

After a sequence of policy errors, Beijing finds itself in a weakened economic position generally and in an especially poor position to face new tariffs from the incoming Trump administration.

There may be still newer policies to come, but the measures already taken and recently promised by the Politburo fall short of China's economic needs.