THE UGLY END OF CHIMERICA.

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  • Author(s): SCHELL, ORVILLE
  • Source:
    Foreign Policy. Spring2020, Issue 236, p26-29. 4p. 2 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      COVID-19; XI, Jinping, 1953-; TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; DEMOCRACY; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; CLINTON, Hillary Rodham, 1947-; HUMAN rights; CLIMATE change
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on coronavirus pandemic has turned a conscious uncoupling into a messy breakup. Topics discussed include impact of Chinese President Xi Jinping's rigid ideology and U.S. President Donald Trump's nationalism, seductive power of democracy and lulled by the promise of a seemingly ineluctable historical arc that bent toward greater openness, freedom, and justice, Americans tended to view the prospect of such convergence as almost inevitable and former U.S. President Barack Obama continued to pursue this promise, trying to breathe new life into the relationship by having Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reassure Beijing that his administration would not allow sensitive questions like human rights to interfere with cooperation on climate change and economic crisis.