biden during the campaign, a year ago, was president trump saying he d be soft on china. well, it was president trump who, until covid happened, was much softer along the way with the chinese. what i think we ve seen with the biden administration, though, is they ve been tough. they have not relaxed any of the trump-era tariffs at this point. and they have pushed back relatively hard. i think they are worried about the fact that they ve pushed back so hard and the chinese have pushed back so hard there hasn t been an interchange between the two countries that would steer us away from the cold war. but i think we re headed into some really rough patches. remember the chinese have big economic problems of their own as we ve seen particularly in recent days. we shouldn t exaggerate their threat. david sanger, thank you for your expertee, as always. can the president break up a fight between two key democratic