Monday, April 27, 2020

A China-U.S. Cold War?

 The Trump administration is beginning a systematic policy to reduce dependence on China.

It's obvious, too, that Americans will want to sue China for economic damages.

What about the annual influx of Chinese students and research scientists who come to America's top research universities? Serious questions will arise on policy after policy, all giving China broad access to America.

Beijing would demand foreign companies leave production in China if they want to sell there.

They continue to attack the president and downplay malfeasance by China and the WHO. A few have taken a different approach, reminding voters of Trump's early praise for Xi. But that's really an opportunistic attack on Trump, not a hard-line policy on China.

Most Democrats won't run to Trump's right on China.

Can Washington deter China's expansive global role? Can these nuclear superpowers avoid direct engagement in contested areas like the South China Sea and Korean Peninsula? And are we beginning yet another "Long twilight struggle," another Cold War?.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/27/a_china-us_cold_war_143042.html

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