https://www.scmp.com/rss/507883/feed Jude Blanchette is Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Beginning last summer and picking up intensity in the weeks leading up to the US presidential election, warnings emerged in newspaper articles, analytical pieces and in private discussions that the United States and China are on the brink of open military confrontation. Two scenarios in particular are being put forward. One holds that Chinese leader Xi Jinping, feeling empowered domestically after Beijing’s relative containment of Covid-19, will seek to exploit US election distraction to achieve... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3110204/neither-china-nor-us-wants-hot-war-biden-must-tread-carefully?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3110204/neither-china-nor-us-wants-hot-war-biden-must-tread-carefully?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Nov 2020 17:00:18 +0000