Over the past year, China’s foreign policymakers have been scrambling to cope with growing friction with the U.S. How is it that differences over trade have ballooned to include a battle for global high-tech dominance, as reflected in the conflict over Chinese communications technology giant Huawei?
The perception that China is working hard to overtake the U.S. through any means possible is taking hold in Washington, including among members of Congress. This is leading to growing calls in the U.S. for the need to hold China in check across a range of areas, including technology related to national security. The confrontation between the two superpowers, often referred to as a “new cold war,” has grown into a tangled mess that will be difficult to straighten out.
