Understanding China: military and political challenges
Decoding its armed forces’ strengths, and revealing their weaknesses
China boasts the world’s largest armed forces, with 2m personnel. But despite its strength, it is also vulnerable. The People’s Liberation Army is a force untested in recent conflict, and internally it is dealing with corruption, complex command structures and the effects of America’s technology restrictions.
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Full-length interview: the head of NATO on how Ukraine can win the war
Jens Stoltenberg discusses the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump with our editor-in-chief
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Who is “Europe’s last dictator”?
Alexander Lukashenko has doubled down on political repression, but is dependent on Russia
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Is Putin winning the war in Ukraine?
Our experts discuss what the next year of conflict might hold
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A portrait of Alexei Navalny
A podcast on the prominent Russian dissident, who died in prison on February 16th
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Alexei Navalny, in his own words
In 2017 The Economist interviewed the opposition leader about Putin’s Russia and his own prison experience