The Epoch Times The fundamentals of the U.S.–China conflict point to more confrontation.
By Terri Wu
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is set to escalate deterrence against communist China’s aggression during his second term.
The first Trump administration steered U.S.–China relations away from partners to strategic competitors. It began restricting China’s access to U.S. semiconductor technology and capital and identified the Indo–Pacific region as the priority theater for the United States, a trajectory that the Biden administration continued.
By the end of his first term, Trump experienced first-hand the result of placing trust in the communist regime. The United States was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, borne from an outbreak in China that was covered up by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The January 2020 phase one trade deal with China to rebalance the trade deficit went largely unfulfilled.
On Nov. 16, at his last official meeting with President Joe Biden, CCP leader Xi Jinping said he was ready to work with the incoming Trump administration.
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