China and the US: ‘sleeping in the same bed, dreaming different dreams’

This will likely be remembered as the year Washington and Beijing decided previous efforts to bridge their differences had been a bridge too far.

Their current rash of controversies, however, must be understood for what they really are: These are not fights over issues of principle but propaganda narratives ⁠— smokescreens obscuring the magnitude of their leaders’ failure to find a path both civilizations can travel in peace.