Up through 2019, the recent conflict between the United States and China played out on two simultaneous fronts: a trade war led by US President Donald Trump and a high-tech war led by bipartisan anti-China hawks. Then 2020 brought a new wrinkle with the COVID-19 pandemic, which drove the two-pronged conflict into overdrive. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others began openly accuse the Chinese Communist Party, as if to say ”overthrow the evil regime,” while China seems to have decided that no matter who its next president may be, the United States will continue to stand in the way of its development, and is ... (full story)