What Explains America’s Antagonism Toward China?

Opposition to China is one of the few uniting causes for a polarized America, Zhang writes.
*Credit: Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons (left); Adam Schultz/Biden for President, Creative Commons (right)*

Listen to SupChina editor-at-large and Sinica podcast host Kaiser Kuo read this article. SHANGHAI – Last month, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee officially backed the Strategic Competition Act of 2021, which labels China a strategic competitor in a number of areas, including trade, technology, and security. Given bipartisan support — exceedingly rare in the United States nowadays — Congress will most likely pass the bill, and President Joe Biden will sign it. With th

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