American analysts and policymakers agree that something did. As James Steinberg, the former deputy secretary of state, wrote last year, “There are few things that Democrats and Republicans in Washington agree on these days — but policymakers from both parties are virtually unanimous in the view that Sino-American relations have taken a dramatic turn for the worse in recent years.” Quoting President Barack Obama’s and President Donald Trump’s national security strategies, he noted that in just the past decade, a rapidly developing “partnership” has degenerated to “a geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order.”
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