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View this email in your browser China’s Xi on the horns of lose-lose dilemmas By Francesco Sisci China is caught in a series of paradoxes without any clear solution that could cause China to lose either way.  Trade wars to become currency wars in 2021 Subscribe to AT+ premium to read William Pesek's article on US President Donald Trump’s trade brawl with Asia, which is fast mutating into a Covid-driven East versus West race-to-the-bottom currency conflict. Lee family still just can’t get along in Singapore By Nile Bowie When the fifth anniversary of the death of Singapore’s founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew was observed earlier this year, his estranged children mourned apart. Subscribe or login Japan’s Open RAN hot alternative to Huawei 5G By Scott Foster Japan’s NEC has been selected by Telefonica Germany as the system integrator for the first Open RAN pilot system in Germany. The decision was made based on NEC’s history of successful project completions with the Telefonica Group. India’s military diplomacy is delusional By MK Bhadrakumar The recent visits by India’s chief of army staff, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia generated some excitement among Indian analysts that a brave new world of “military diplomacy” has dawned. US strategic patience no excuse to ease on China By Grant Newsham US President-elect Joseph Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, retired General Lloyd Austin, is simultaneously praised and criticized for suggesting he believes in “strategic patience” towards the People’s Republic of China. China on high alert as London seen as ‘new Wuhan’ By Frank Chen Wuhan, the Chinese city widely believed to be the initial epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, is on high alert again amid reports of an even more contagious strain of the novel coronavirus emerging in the United Kingdom. Meet the team behind AT+ Premium content   From the archives Nail in the coffin of Myanmar’s dying peace process: Fighting has resumed in Myanmar’s Kayin state due to broken government ceasefire promises and conflicted foreign donors. Hints Hun Sen starting to look away from China: PM Hun Sen says Cambodia not a Chinese 'dustbin' for vaccine trials as calls rise for a more neutral foreign policy. Israel’s multilayer air defense system a new age missile-killer: Israel's Iron Dome and David's Sling air defenses prove effective against state-of-the-art cruise missile threats. What Asia Times staff are reading China used stolen data to expose CIA operatives in Africa and Europe: The discovery of U.S. spy networks in China fueled a decadelong global war over data between Beijing and Washington. Wall Street’s latest shiny new thing: quantum computing: A fundamentally new kind of computing will shake up finance—the question is when. A lunar pandemic: In the 1960s, NASA went to huge expense to contain possible pathogens from the Moon. What can we learn from the attempt? Copyright © 2020 Asia Times, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up for The Daily Report at https://www.asiatimes.com Our mailing address is: Asia Times Suite 203, Kin Wing Commercial Building  24-30 Kin Wing Street Tuen Mun, NT Hong Kong Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. ResponderEncaminhar