Subject: Editors' Picks: How to cheat at Xi Jinping thought, and why Russia's hypersonic weapons might be more bark than bite
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 15:56:40 -0600 (CST)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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03/06/2019

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today we look at why an app from China’s Communist Party with 17 million downloads is spurring a flurry of cheating, how U.S. President Donald Trump’s promises to bolster missile defense could be undercut by the Pentagon’s budget, and what to know about Russia’s hypersonic weapons.

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THE TOOTHPASTE IS OUT OF THE TUBE: Trump has deployed maximum pressure campaigns against friends and foes alike. The common thread is that they have failed, Ariane Tabatabai writes.

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LET A THOUSAND CHEAT SHEETS BLOOM: In China, getting around the system is a time-honored tradition, and efforts to bypass studying on a new government mandated app is proving to be no exception, Philip Spence writes.

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GHOSTING THE MDA: Despite Trump’s promise to bolster missile defenses in response to new threats from China and Russia, the administration has not asked for a significant boost to the Missile Defense Agency’s budget this year, FP’s Lara Seligman reports.

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SONIC BOOM: After years of Western sanctions and a gloomy economic outlook, Russian president Vladimir Putin is looking to an arsenal of hypersonic weapons as his new soapbox to stand on, FP’s Amy Mackinnon reports.

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