Kate Bullivant
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WSJ What’s News · China’s Power Tactics are Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace · 13 Mar 2025
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Canada's reciprocal 25% tariffs on more than $20 billion in US imported goods, such as steel, aluminum and computers, came into effect at midnight. Incoming Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he plans to continue Canada's strategy of responding to Trump's tariffs with targeted duties of its own. He'll be sworn in on Friday.
After losing a large number of their population during the pandemic, cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are growing again and at a faster pace than previously thought. New Census Bureau estimates released today show that in the year ended in June, most growth occurred in metro areas, where 86% of the US population lives.
Economics reporter Conrad Puzier says cities are being boosted by immigration in particular.
A federal judge has said that Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student arrested after his participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, would remain in Louisiana for now. Yesterday's order comes as Khalil's lawyers push for him to be returned to New York as soon as possible to have better access to their client and to allow Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant, to visit him.
Lawyers for the government argue that the case shouldn't be decided by a judge in New York but rather in New Jersey, where he was first booked and processed, or in Louisiana, where he was transferred this past weekend. In market news today, shares in Intel have rallied in off-hours trading after the semiconductor company named Litbu Tan as its new chief executive.
Tan is a career venture capitalist and former Intel board member with more than 20 years of chip and software experience. Intel shares have lost more than half their value over the past year as the one-time industry-leading semiconductor manufacturer has underperformed both the market and its competitors. though deal speculation has helped push shares up so far this year.
New data from the Treasury Department shows that the gap between federal revenue and government spending widened to $1.15 trillion in the first five months of the fiscal year. That marks a record for the October through February period. The biggest increases in spending came from interest paid on public debt, which rose by 10% in the current fiscal year.
Higher tax credits and military and security spending also jumped. And later today, markets will get another inflation update when the Labor Department releases February's producer price index. Yesterday, data showed consumer prices were up 2.8% last month from a year earlier, a lower than expected reading, although there is concern from analysts and on Wall Street
that tariffs could continue to push prices higher. PPI is due out at 8.30am Eastern. Coming up, China's relentless campaign to extend its power across Asia is blurring the lines between war and peace. We take a look at this grey zone after the break. In the middle ground between war and peace lies the grey zone.
It's a domain of boundary pushing that tests the limits of what your opponents consider tolerable. And it's a strategy that journal chief correspondent Naharika Mandana reports China has been embracing across a swath of Asia as it looks to cement its power. Naharika, let me just say first off, for our journal subscribers, I think it's worth checking out the link to your story.
We've left a link to that in our show notes. The graphics showing Chinese military activity in the waters around Taiwan or the buildup of Chinese settlements in the Himalayas is really quite eye-catching stuff.
And one location we haven't discussed on the podcast before is China's border with Bhutan, where this strategy also seems to be playing out. Tell us about the significance here.
So how are affected countries responding to that aggression?
That was Journal chief correspondent Naharika Mandana. Naharika, thanks so much for your time. Thanks very much, Kate. And speaking of the rivalry between the world's greatest powers, we've been working on a special series about how Beijing is using its trillion-dollar Belt and Road infrastructure programme to undercut American dominance on the world stage.
All three episodes of Building Influence are available now on the What's News feed. We've left a link to them in our show notes. And that's it for What's News for this Thursday morning. Today's show was produced by Daniel Bark with supervising producer Sandra Kilhoff. And I'm Kate Bullivant for The Wall Street Journal, filling in for Luke Vargas. We'll be back tonight with a new show.
Until then, thanks for listening.
Als China im Jahr 2013 Belt and Road begann, war seine Wirtschaft schnell aufgewachsen, bei fast 8% im Jahr. Das machte es für Beijing einfacher, Investitionen auf große Infrastrukturprojekte aufzubauen. Seitdem hat China viele Herausforderungen. Die Covid-19-Pandemie, die Verlängerung ihres Wohnungssektors, die Verlängerung der lokalen Regierungstechnik,
Auch die öffentliche Frustration über die Entscheidung von Beijing, die Investitionen im Ausland zu channeln, wenn es noch Zuhause Anforderungen gibt. Wie wir letzte Woche gehört haben, begann China's Belt and Road-Investment in 2018 zu steigen. Und auch heute bleibt seine ausländische Lendung viel niedriger als ihr Peak, obwohl es immer noch rund 80 Billionen Dollar pro Jahr ist.
Brad Parks von A-Data sagt, dass China immer noch eine Verleumdung von den Verlusten der ersten Jahre des Programms ist.
So what's China doing to cut down on risk? For starters, let's look at who's doing the lending. Remember how we said in Episode 1 that in the early years of the programme, Chinese development banks were spraying money across the world to open new markets? Well, state-backed commercial banks are doing a lot more of the financing these days.
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