Alex Christoforou
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“The US quest for a partnership with China was fated to fail once China’s growth in economic capabilities was gradually matched by its rising military power.”
Despite the latest Sino-American phase one deal to ease tensions over trade, one former top US official is now calling for a decoupling between both economies, reported the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
Former US ambassador to India Ashley Tellis explains in a new book titled Strategic Asia 2020: US-China Competition for Global Influence — that the world’s two largest economies have entered a new period of sustained competition.
Tellis said Washington had developed a view that “China is today and will be for the foreseeable future the principal challenger to the US.”
“The US quest for a partnership with China was fated to fail once China’s growth in economic capabilities was gradually matched by its rising military power,” he said
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China has boomed since Clinton brought them into the World Trade Organization. The neoliberals and the big business republicans have to much invested in the US-China trans continental economy for a decoupling to happen. Such a thing would require massive state investment from Trump. With a hostile Congress, there’s no chances of him doing such a thing.
And Canada needs to switch locomotives…