Us-china relations to remain tense under Biden

摘要

US president Joe Biden and his advisers have signalled plans to maintain a tough approach to China on trade and other issues, with Beijing also taking a confronta- tional stance as the new US leader takes ofce. Relations between the two countries took a turn for the worse in the fnal year of former president Donald Trump’s term. High tarifs afecting imports in China have remained in place, Chinese oil and other state-controlled companies are being squeezed out of US fnancial markets, and a bipartisan consensus in Washington views China as the US’ principal adversary for decades to come.