Why the new US ‘China scare’ is big on pressure, short on vision

US China-bashing has turned increasingly muscular across the political aisle. US allies are being cajoled or pressured to fall in line, and China is now targeted as the US’ No 1 existential threat. Gone are hopes that China could become a “responsible stakeholder” in a US-led global order. Its alleged trade malpractices, technological and military advances, foreign policy assertiveness, and perceived regime repressiveness, have inflamed a McCarthyist “China scare”. There is a lurking belief…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3095917/why-new-us-china-scare-big-pressure-short-vision