Barbara Plett Usher, BBC: Trumplomacy: What's behind new US strategy on China?
Tensions between the US and China are longstanding but the pandemic and a looming presidential election have amplified the rivalry, and this week the war of words hit a new peak. What's the US strategy?
This week President Donald J Trump turned a corner with his 2020 re-election campaign.
"China will do anything they can to have me lose this race," he told the Reuters news agency.
His sharpening rhetoric against Beijing marked a new phase in an effort to reframe an election that's been reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic.
And it signalled rockier times for the already rocky relationship between the world's two biggest economies.
The Trump campaign had planned to make America's booming economy its centrepiece, but that has tanked. And polls show decreasing support for the president in key battleground states amidst criticism of his corona crisis performance.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 25, 2020
Why US-China relations are at their lowest point in decades -- Barbara Plett Usher, BBC
No end in sight to the US-China confrontation -- Dang Yuan, DW
Why Beijing didn’t shut down US consulate in Hong Kong -- Alex Lo, SCMP
US-China relations: would a Mark Esper visit to Beijing ease tensions, or add to the confusion? -- Wendy Wu, SCMP
Can the US-China relationship ever go back to the pre-Donald Trump days? -- Shi Jiangtao and Jane Cai, SCMP
China Refuses to Quit on the Philippines -- Derek Grossman, The Diplomat
China’s Bhutan Gambit -- Sudha Ramachandran, The Diplomat
Analyst: North Korea provocation could occur after U.S. election -- Elizabeth Shim, UPI
Lebanon swings between humor and tragedy as economy crumbles -- Tom Allinson, DW
Turkey's maritime claims in the Mediterranean Sea raise thorny legal questions -- Panagiotis Kouparanis, DW
Algeria, Tunisia on sidelines of regional diplomacy over Libya conflict -- Simon Speakman Cordall, Al-Monitor
Forty years ago, the Shah of Iran died in exile -- France 24
Belarus leader's power creeps as opposition swells -- Nikolaj Nielsen, EU Observer
Unmasking the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund — the fine print -- Arthur Sullivan, DW
What the “Defunding the Pentagon” Articles Don’t Tell You -- Thomas Spoehr, RCD
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ReplyDeleteAnon 3:37PM,
I recently read that the N95 masks DO filter the virus and the droplet it travels on. These masks can be sterilzed through ultra-violet, soap and water, and another method for a goodly number of times.
This was not a newspaper article but a testing lab or some such. I'm going with them. They're not selling anything.