Illustration by Robert Neubecker
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA — Having already claimed over 300,000 lives and sent the global economy toward its deepest slump since the Great Depression, the Covid-19 crisis is bound to reshape geopolitics. While the contours of the post-pandemic order remain to be seen, one thing seems certain: far from normalizing their relationship, the United States and China are likely to become increasingly estranged — and increasingly hostile.
Even before the current cr