There is less trust between Washington and Beijing than at any point since 1979

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There is less trust between Washington and Beijing than at any point since 1979
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One attack ad paid for by Donald Trump's allies said that “To stop China, you have to stop Joe Biden”

Corporation, a think-tank, worries most about an invasion of Taiwan, the security of which is implicitly guaranteed by America. In one scenario the red team unleashes a “joint firepower strike” on Taiwan’s defence forces and on American forces, bases and command-and-control nodes in the Pacific, including on Okinawa and Guam. Many of the blue team’s planes are destroyed on the ground, and its runways disabled.

President Donald Trump had praised Chinese leaders in the early days of the pandemic, after signing a “phase one” trade deal. He has repeatedly expressed admiration for Xi Jinping, China’s president, even as recently as late March, tweeting after a telephone call, "We are working closely together.

Then there is what P.W. Singer, a specialist on 21st-century warfare, calls “like war”, the Kremlin-style use of social media to spread propaganda and disinformation. Mr Singer says China has learned from Russia. Its diplomats and state-media actors have spread the fiction that the American armed forces brought the virus to Wuhan.

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