Threat from within – Opinion – Chinadaily.com.cn

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Political polarization in US fueling the tensions in Sino-US relations The competition between China and the United States is a key source of uncertainty in today’s world. Yet it is unlikely that there will be any improvement in China-US relations in the near future. First of all, the overall situation determining the China-US rivalry remains unchanged. The US initiated this “strategic competition” with China because, in President Joe Biden’s words, China poses “the most serious challenge to our prosperity, security and democratic values”. The claim that China’s rapid rise threatens the US primacy is hardly convincing, because…