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Playing the countersanctions game

With a playbook seemingly inspired by the EU's Blocking Statue, China has joined Russia in assembling a legal framework to blunt US sanctions. Paul Cochrane charts the development of countermeasures by the "axis of agitators", amid divergence between the US and EU's approaches.

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