<em>China’s growing global role and increasingly hardline policies at home and abroad gain attention, the United States and other Western governments are also taking notice of China’s expanding influence in developing countries. The implications of China’s growing investments linked to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), its ambitious global infrastructure and connectivity program, are increasingly debated. So, too, are the nature of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) efforts to popularize its authoritarian model and undermine developing democracies around the world, whether intentionally or indirectly.1 In November, Vice President Pence noted that the administration, through its Indo-Pacific strategy, intends to bolster the rule of law and human rights in regional countries facing growing influence from China.</em>
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<span>Stained-glass windows helped teach a mainly illiterate populace.
The upper class did not participate in the performing arts.
</span><span>Some literature of the period includes Beowulf and tales of Robin Hood.</span>
fol·li·cle
noun
1.ANATOMY
a small secretory cavity, sac, or gland.
2.BOTANY
a dry fruit that is derived from a single carpel and opens on one side only to release its seeds.
Did the articles of confederation give most power to the states or the national government
