China, the US: Stormy waters.

Also: India, Poland, Belarus, the Baltics, Russia, Cambodia, Thailand and Lebanon.

A scene of the Taiwanese campaign, Chia Ch'uan and Li Ming, c1788, coloured engraving, Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

CHINA. UNITED STATES. Stormy waters.

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