US-China ties on the precipice

Negative vibes: To China, Trump is just a headstrong, mercurial, impulsive and whimsical individual. — AFP

Even as the US and China need to work more closely to resolve transnational problems, the space they have given themselves to do so is rapidly closing.

NEVER before have relations between the United States and China been so fraught, at such great risk to so many, over so little or nothing at all. And so much of it is so unnecessary.