'Washington's policy for 50 years has been designed to manage China's rise to great power status peacefully. Trump instead has pivoted to confrontation, arguing the policy produced a rich, ambitious threat to US dominance,' writes StCollinson
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A standoff between giants US and China is alarming enough on its own. Scarier is the fact that nationalists on both sides have political incentives to escalate further. Insults and accusations over the coronavirus crisis are accelerating an already steep decline in the world's most crucial relationship. US President Donald Trump sees China as a scapegoat for his own failure in containing the pandemic and as a campaign trail whipping boy. Beijing is deflecting internal discontent by standing up to the US, and has propagandized the botched American coronavirus response to imply the superiority of its own political system.
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