U.S.-China Relations Are Evolving Quickly | Opinion

Republicans and Democrats disagree on almost every issue under the sun, but getting tougher on China isn’t one of them. This was reflected most recently during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, where he vowed to defend U.S. sovereignty from Beijing’s aggression even as he expressed his preference for “competition, not conflict.” Whether it concerns Beijing’s military exercises in the South China Sea, brinkmanship over Taiwan, a massively imbalanced US.-China trade relationship, or spy balloons over the continental U.S., policymakers and analysts in Washington are firmly convinced that China is intent on displacing the U.S. as the world’s…