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America’s big China question
America’s big China question
Resetting relations will be near the top of President Biden’s inbox. Three new books point to the scale of the challenge ahead — and how to master it
World Economy News
20 Jan 2021
• 7 min read
Before his death in 1994, Richard Nixon reflected that his much-acclaimed diplomatic masterstroke — the opening of US relations with China — might have been a mistake. “We may have created a Frankenstein,” the former US president said in an interview.
The comment represented an early inkling of what has become a deep foreboding. As Joe Biden takes office as America’s 46th president, a huge China challenge is sitting in his inbox.