How to hold China accountable without shooting US in the foot

For the last several years, Washington’s policy community across the ideological spectrum has become increasingly hawkish toward China. The litany of complaints about China runs the gamut from human rights to national security to trade and investment. “Decoupling” the world’s two largest economies and gearing up for a new Cold War has become the Beltway hawks’ raison d’etre. With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and Beijing’s lack of transparency, the chorus is growing louder.

But cutting off trade and investment with China is more complicated than most want to admit.