The U.S. and China are at a critical turning point. We reached out to U.S. experts in trade, technology, and investments to ask: Where should the next president go from here?
This year, more than ever before, the question of how the U.S. should deal with China is on the ballot. China’s handling of the Covid-19 outbreak represents the culmination of long-building tensions between the two countries over national security, global leadership and, perhaps most pressingly for American voters, the economy.
The past year has brought an escalating U.S.-China trade war, the Trump administration's move to decouple from Chinese technology companies like TikTok and Wechat, and an ever-expanding Entity List filled with Chinese firms. Not only have these conflicts soured Sino-American diplomacy, they have also impacted American consumers, manufacturers, and investors. How the next American president, whoever he may be, handles this critical turning point will set the tone for U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century.
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Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative under Donald Trump, reflects on his decision to launch the trade war with China and begin the process of "strategic decoupling" — a process he says the U.S. must see through to the end.
