Experts Believe U.S.-China Relations Will Go South

In the Chinese zodiac, 2018 will be the Year of the Dog; in U.S. foreign policy, however, the next 12 months may be defined as the year of tackling the Red Dragon. Fortune has an in-depth analysis predicting the Trump Administration will make a firm change from the cordial relationship it showed Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government last year. Exhibit A is the just-released unclassified report from the U.S. Defense Department released identifying competition with China and Russia as “principal priorities” for the US military over terrorism in 2018.  There’s more. For example, the magazine pointed to a recent Wall Street Journal Journal column highlighting expected quotas and tariffs to be leveled against China, not to mention a pushback against cases of Chinese espionage. North Korea also looms as a point of tensions.

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