Biden’s China Challenge
After years of the United States and China butting heads over trade and other issues, opportunities for a mutually constructive rapprochement are growing scarce. It will be up to Joe Biden's administration to develop a more cogent strategy for dealing with the most important foreign-policy issue of this century.
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Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy, PublicAffairs, 2020.
Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble that Never Pops, Oxford University Press, 2020.
BOSTON – Election campaigns are rarely the place to look for reasoned geopolitical analysis, and the 2020 US presidential election was no exception. In fact, it featured even less disciplined thinking than usual, with Donald Trump decrying the “Chinese virus” and Joe Biden calling Chinese President Xi Jinping “a thug.”