China’s Power Tactics are Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

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A.M. Edition for Mar. 13. Democrats signal they will block a Republican plan to avert a government shut down this weekend. Plus, US and Canadian officials meet today in a bid to tamp down the trade war between the two allies. And, chief correspondent Naharika Mandana explains how China is cementing power across Asia by exhausting its opponents with a thousand cuts. Kate Bullivant hosts. Check out our special series on how China’s trillion-dollar infrastructure plan is challenging the West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7	Democrats signal they will block a Republican plan to avert a government shutdown this weekend.
0:40.3	Plus, US and Canadian officials meet today in a bid to tamp down the trade war between the two allies.
0:47.3	And we look at China's efforts to cement power across Asia by exhausting its opponents with a thousand cuts.
0:54.6	So China escalates a little bit with every move, and no single move is so intolerable
1:00.1	as to provoke conflict. But if you add them up over a period of time, the picture kind of
1:05.7	changes bit by bit in China's favour. It's Thursday, March 13th. I'm Kate Bullivan for the Wall Street Journal filling in for Luke Vargas.
1:14.6	And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving
1:20.6	your world today.
1:25.6	Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said Democrats won't back a Republican plan to fund federal agencies through September, setting up a potential government shutdown this week.
1:37.6	The Republican-controlled House left town after it approved the resolution on Tuesday, effectively giving the Senate no time to revise the bill,
1:46.0	but to simply pass it or reject it by Friday's midnight deadline.
1:50.0	Speaking in the Senate, Schumer floated a shorter-term plan that would fund the government for a month.
1:56.0	Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path drafting
2:04.5	their continuing resolution without any input, any input from congressional Democrats.
2:10.9	On Fox News, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Democrats could cast a vote to keep
2:16.3	the government open or take the blame for shutting
2:19.1	it down. President Trump's trade team will meet with Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc
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