Strategic Shift in US Approach to China Gains Momentum Under Trump

Strategic Shift in US Approach to China Gains Momentum Under Trump
China’s leader Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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The United States is increasingly closing its doors to engagement with China, experts suggest.

From calls in the U.S. Senate to punish China economically for its secrecy and coverup of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has led to a worldwide pandemic, to more structural risks of supply-chain dependency that the United States faces in its relationship with China, bipartisan opposition to China may be at an all-time high.