China’s Power Tactics are Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace

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  Democrats signal they will block a Republican plan to avert a government shutdown this weekend.

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  Plus,

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  U.S. and Canadian officials meet today in a bid to tamp down the trade war between the two allies.

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  And we look at China's efforts to cement power

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  across Asia by exhausting its opponents with a thousand cuts.

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  So China escalates a little bit with every move,

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  and no single move is so intolerable as to provoke conflict.

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  But if you add them up over a period of time,

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  the picture kind of changes bit by bit in China's Favor.

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  It's Thursday, March 13th.

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  I'm Kate Bullivant for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for Luke Vargas.

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  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said Democrats won't back a Republican plan to fund federal agencies

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  through setting up a potential government shutdown this week.

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  The Republican controlled House left town after it approved the resolution on Tuesday,

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  effectively giving the Senate no time to revise the bill

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  but to simply pass it or reject it by Friday's midnight deadline.

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  Speaking in the Senate,

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  Schumer floated a shorter term plan that would fund the government for a month.

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