| Summary/Abstract |
Although many Americans were slow to realize it, Beijing’s enmity for Washington began long before U.S. President Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and even prior to Chinese
President Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012. Ever since taking power
in 1949, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has cast the
United States as an antagonist. But three decades ago, at the end of
the Cold War, Chinese leaders elevated the United States from just
one among many antagonists to their country’s primary external adversary—and began quietly revising Chinese grand strategy, embarking on a quest for regional and then global dominance.
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