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With the Joe Biden administration busy reversing the previous administration's policies, there is hope it would also reverse the regressive trend former president Donald Trump's set for China-US relations.
The Trump administration's trade war, tech war, suspension of bilateral exchange mechanisms and McCarthyist measures against Chinese journalists and media outlets and the Confucius Institutes in the United States should all be abandoned.
The most consequential bilateral relationship deserves the urgent attention of the US administration despite the extremely long list of domestic priorities for President Biden. Competition is welcome but as long as it is fair, open and based on rules-attempts to sabotage China's development during the Trump era cannot be called competition. The Trump administration's persecution of Huawei in the 5G rollout is a case in point.