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IN 2020, RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES and the People's Republic of China (PRC) are characterized by a climate of confrontation. 1 Tensions have escalated across a range of military, economic, and technology issues to the point that each side is portraying the other in stark adversarial terms. U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo has described the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as “truly hostile to the United States,” and Beijing perceives senior officials in Washington as possessing considerable “hostility” toward China. 2 Indeed, some seasoned scholars opine that the temperature of U.S.‐China relations is at its lowest point in decades
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