NOTE: China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started (How Beijing tries to make a democracy submit without putting up a fight) in The Atlantic [Very much a US govt-foreign policy mouthpiece…] discusses the group behind the China Index.
- The China Index — a database relaunched on December 8 by DoubleThink Labs, a Taiwan-based research organization – measures China’s influence around the world.
- The China Index ranks Pakistan atop a list of 82 countries. Behind Pakistan, Southeast Asia features prominently in the rankings, with Cambodia and Singapore listed in second and third, followed by Thailand. The Philippines is seventh and Malaysia is 10th. South Africa is the first African country at No. 5, where it is tied with Peru, the highest-ranked South American country. READ MORE

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