The United States has yet to come up with a viable strategy to deal with multipolarity in international relations. How will this affect its confrontation with China around Taiwan?
Given that the U.S.-China rivalry has become a long game, what is key here is how and when the intensity of Washington¡¯s stance toward Beijing ebbs and flows.
America¡¯s hard-line shift emerged with the first Trump administration¡¯s 2017 National Security Strategy, which labeled China and Russia as ¡°revisionist powers.¡± The following year, then-Vice President Mike Pence made a speech expressing disappointment in and strong opposition to China ¡ª reminiscent of wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill¡¯s ¡°Iron Curtain¡± speech, which signaled the beginning of the Cold War.
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