Lizzi C. Lee is a fellow on the Chinese economy at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis and a host at Wall St TV.
As a second Donald Trump presidency comes ever closer, debates rage over whether Trump 2.0 will bring an even more hawkish U.S. policy toward China. Analysts divide potential players into "ultra-hawks," "dovish hawks" like Elon Musk, "tariff hardliners," and potential Mnuchin 2.0s, as if assembling a fantasy league of cabinet ideologues could somehow reveal the administration's China strategy.
