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February 21, 2024
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Is China really the enemy of the West? 

The easy answer is yes. It plays into simplistic narratives. That’s why I’ve always appreciated the work of Monitor writers such as Fred Weir, Taylor Luck, and Ann Scott Tyson, to name a few. They write not from a Western perspective, but as someone with a genuine affection for the good on all sides, and they seek simply to understand the forces at work. 

Today, we have Ann weighing in on the China question. If you want to understand the evolving relationship between the United States and China, her story is a fresh perspective.


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A Ukrainian soldier with the nickname Yakut carries a 120 mm shell to a mortar tube, as soldiers of the 1st Presidential Brigade of the Ukraine National Guard fire from the Kreminna Forest at Russian positions in Ukraine, Feb. 17, 2024.
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Angelic Lemmon, a park ranger with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, walks across reef-like structures called microbialites exposed by receding waters at the Great Salt Lake, Sept. 28, 2022, near Salt Lake City.
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Stride for Stride runners pose at the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street two days before the race, April 15, 2023.

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A man holds a poster reading "Freedom for Seva Korolev and all political prisoners" on Feb. 21 as he comes to pay tribute to Alexei Navalny at a monument, a large boulder from the Solovetsky islands, where the first camp of the Gulag political prison system was established in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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An Indian farmer protects himself from tear gas with a traditional face pack during a Feb. 21 protest at a border crossing between Punjab and Haryana states. Farmers are marching toward New Delhi to press for better crop prices promised to them in 2021.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Tomorrow, we’ll have another fresh perspective on a major item of world news. Our Fred Weir will weigh in on how the Ukraine war looks from Russia. What is the mood in Russia two years on?

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