PNN – In a report, the Financial Times newspaper quoted Ivan Medeiros, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington and a former employee of the US National Security Council and wrote: The confrontation between China and the United States during the era of Donald Trump, the president-elect of the United States, could intensify and even surpass their confrontation during the Cold War.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, the Financial Times report states: Many predictions can turn out to be wrong because Beijing officials are as confident as Trump’s team and both sides believe that they have the upper hand in mutual relations and can inflict more damage on the other side and resist retaliatory measures.
According to the report of the Financial Times, the tension in the relationship between Beijing and Washington could bring more instability to the world, which is already in a very complicated and troubled situation and the best possible scenario is that the world will go back to the Cold War era because the state of the world then seems like a fond memory compared to the current state.
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The Financial Times report points out that China is ready to react quickly and sharply if the US adopts an unfriendly approach, especially in the economic field: We should not forget that in fact, Beijing has previously rejected Washington’s invitation for Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend Trump’s inauguration.
America and China, as the two superpowers of the West and the East and two fierce rivals, have many conflicting interests in various commercial, economic, political and international fields, and it is quite difficult to transform a wide range of conflicting interests into aligned and common interests between them.