How China Went From a Business Opportunity to Enemy No. 1
Republicans, Democrats, unions and manufacturers are aboard the anti-China train. What about Silicon Valley?
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One of the remarkable things about the Donald Trump era is how significantly the American conversation about China has changed.
As recently as 2016, Barack Obama argued that a weak China that could not contribute to solving global problems was more dangerous than a strong and potentially aggressive China. The Trump administration, by contrast, has identified China as the biggest long-term threat to U.S. geopolitical and geo-economic interests. Trump himself has labeled Beijing an implacable economic competitor even as he has occasionally tried to buddy up to Chinese President Xi Jinping.