Trump’s fake Cold War: the pre-election spin on China

Donald Trump’s relationship with China is not a great power competition: He’s a propaganda generator, not a geopolitical adversary.

The notion that the United States and China are now engaged in a classic great-power rivalry and new Cold War situates the dynamic between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping within a conventional geopolitical context rather than the unconventional one in which it exists, writes Lisa Van Dusen. White House photograph by Shealah Craighead

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

June 24, 2020

Because Donald Trump has transformed the American presidency into less of a global leadership role than an anti-democracy propaganda vehicle, it was going to be a matter of hours following the publication on June 20 of Nick Kristof’s New York Times column, “

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