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Givens and MacDonald report that while tax rates may have been lowered,\u00a0 local officials continue to find ways to squeeze farmers. \u00a0Donald Johnson turns to geopolitics, offering an example from Chinese history to argue that Donald Trump\u2019s trade wars and inward focus could result in making China, and not America, great. Paul Foster reviews <em>Rich Crazy Asians <\/em>and comments on how the film relates to the \u201cChinese dream.\u201d Jie Zhang examines the <em>Wolf Warrior <\/em>films and discusses how they turn the tables on the dominant western narrative of who can be a hero. 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