China holds the aces

China is focused on raising its 1.3 billion people out of poverty. There’s no point in dancing around the fact, though, that the second-biggest economy is doing so at the expense of the rest of Asia. Officials in Jakarta, Manila and Hanoi are feeling the pressure as rabid competition from China undermines living standards. When other countries criticize China, it reflexively defends all policy as domestic matters that are off-limits to outside scrutiny.

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