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CHINA WATCH

Most Westerners in business operate on the baseline assumption that hard work leads to success and beating the competition. With business in communist China, that doesn’t hold. Hard work is a must, but not the most important ingredient for success.

THE REPORT

A GOP congressman is trying to restore the District of Columbia’s original borders with his Make D.C. Square Again Act. Activists leading the long-shot campaign hope President Trump will take action.

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CALIFORNIA INSIDER

Is California’s mail ballot system as exposed as critics suggest, or is the real story more complicated than what either side suggests?

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