Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below. *** China This week highlighted the importance of both domestic politics and economic policy in the United States and China, as China held its long-awaited Third Plenum and the Republican National Convention met to formally nominate Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as candidates for president and vice president. China’s Third Plenum produced few clear signals of policy change. While the communique acknowledged, at least to some extent, China’s ongoing economic challenges, it did not outline major changes