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15 February 2021 Author: Editorial Board, ANU The downward spiral in US–China relations during the Trump administration prompted many to assert that the United States and China were entering a ‘new Cold War’. This framing was partly the result of the Trump administration’s confrontational stance on China, and the tendency of senior officials such as Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to cast the relationship as a fundamental competition between the forces of de...

14 February 2021 Author: Dan Slater, University of Michigan Polarisation has torn the United States apart. Under former US President Donald Trump, it almost tore US democracy to shreds. But America is not only polarised within. It faces a polarised Pacific. Relations with China have reached their post-normalisation nadir after Trump’s years in office, when Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping propagated their strongman cults of personality in parallel. With Trump’s departure, ironically, ...