Trump took a sledgehammer to US-China relations. This won’t be an easy fix, even if Biden wins

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Feng, Hui
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2020
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Few would have thought a US-China relationship marked by relative stability for half a century would be upended in just four years. But US President Donald Trump’s privileged tour of the Forbidden City in November 2017 by Chinese President Xi Jinping now looks like it happened in a bygone era, given the turbulence in the bilateral relationship since then. The shift in the US’s China policy is no doubt one of the major legacies of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, alongside a renewed peace process in the Middle East. When Trump’s daughter Ivanka said at the Republican National Convention that “Washington has not ...
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International Relations
Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
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