Bookshelf: How China Won Over America, and Then Lost It

In the four decades before 2010, the United States maintained a policy of engagement with China, notwithstanding such fluctuations as the reaction to the Tiananmen Square massacre. China won over the US through generally reformist domestic and foreign policies.

But since 2010, and especially since Donald Trump’s first presidency, the US–China relationship has given way to competition and disengagement. China’s formerly positive image among the American public has taken a nosedive.

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