While some of President Donald Trump’s supporters and critics are claiming he lost America’s war against Iran, one foreign policy expert says Trump is losing a different consequential geopolitical battle — namely, America’s rivalry with China. “An uneasy quiescence has come to define U.S.-Chinese relations during U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term,” wrote Jonathan A. Czin of Foreign Affairs on Monday . “Although both governments are calling it ‘constructive strategic stability,’ U.S.-Chinese relations have been so tenuous and shallow, so lacking in ambition or any affirmative vision from either side, that it seems more apt to describe the current moment as a stalemate defined by ‘mutually assured disruption.’ Going forward, the crucial question for both sides will be who is making better use of this interregnum.” Czin went on to explain that the Chinese government sees the ongoing stalemate as a victory because China has positioned itself as America’s peer on the global stage....
