China.Table – Edition 1319

Beijing deploys sanctions-blocking tool + Four initiatives for global hegemony + Germany’s India miscalculation

• Oil trade: Beijing bans companies from complying with US sanctions
• Four initiatives: How Beijing is using Trump’s withdrawal to its advantage
• Mody: “Western countries are fooling themselves”
• Taiwan: Lai Ching-te reaffirms the right to international contacts
• Must Reads: China and India in a metaphor dispute
• Alicia García-Herrero: China’s economy is operating at two speeds