Is the U.S. in a New Cold War? China Has Already Declared It – Bloomberg
Conservative critics of engagement, meanwhile, are eager to dance on its grave, urging that the People s Republic be economically quarantined, its role in global supply chains drastically reduced. There is a spring in the step of the more Sinophobic members of the Trump administration, notably Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, deputy National Security Adviser Matt Pottinger and trade adviser Peter Navarro. For the past three and a half years they have been arguing that the single most important thing about Trump’s presidency was that he had changed the course of U.S. policy towards China, a shift from engagement to competition spelled out in the 2017 National Security Strategy. The events of 2020 would seem to have vindicated them.
Niall Fergeson