Though Trump has tagged China as the reason for several hawkish policy steps from Canada to Greenland and Venezuela, he's eased policy towards Beijing in the last several months in key areas from tariffs to advanced computer chips and drones. "Both sides are signalling that they want to preserve stability in the US-China relationship," said Bonnie Glaser, head of the Indo-Pacific program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a think tank. The last nuclear treaty between Russia and the United States is soon to expire, raising the risk of a new arms race in which China will also play a key role with its own growing nuclear stockpile.
Published at: 2026-02-04 21:33:23
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