How Biden will shape the US–China relationship
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 democracy and authoritarianism. This adversarial view of US–China relations always extended far bey...
Source: eastasiaforum.org