Tensions between the United States and China are rising as the U.S. election nears, with tit-for-tat consulate closures, new U.S. sanctions and no less than
three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups prowling the seas around China. But it is the United States that has initiated each new escalation in U.S.-China relations. China's responses have been careful and proportionate, with Chinese officials such as Foreign Minister
Wang Yi publicly asking the U.S. to step back from its brinkmanship to find common ground for diplomacy.
Most of the U.S. complaints about China are long-standing, from the
treatment of the Uighur minority and
disputes over islands and maritime borders in the South China Sea to accusations of unfair
trade practices and
support for protests in Hong Kong. But the answer to the "Why now?" question seems obvious: the approaching U.S. election.
Danny Russel, who was Obama's top East Asia expert in the National Security Council and then at the State Department, told the BBC that the new tensions with China are partly an effort to divert attention from Trump's bungled response to the Covid-19 pandemic and his tanking poll numbers, and that this "has a wag the dog feel to it."
Meanwhile, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has been going toe-to-toe with Trump and
Secretary Pompeo in a potentially dangerous
"tough on China" contest, which could prove difficult for the winner to walk back after the election.
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