From stiffening international #investors first in the #tech sector and now in #realestate (Evergrande, anyone?) to crackdowns on gaming and the toxic rhetorics aimed at rivals, #China presents itself in a worrying state. It all smells an awful lot like #siegementality.

More importantly, pundits have been saying that #Beijing is playing the long game and that it has a strict plan all the time. With #AUKUS, time has started to run against China's #expansionism in the #FarEast. What's next?