When U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China half a century ago, it transformed the post-World War II international order in one stroke. Amid a standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the two superpowers of the time, Washington and Beijing chose to collaborate to counter Moscow.
Today, it is the U.S. and China that are locked in a fierce confrontation. But rather than being a temporary phenomenon, this looks to be a fundamental, structural change.
