Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 25, 2020

Barbara Plett Usher, BBC: Trumplomacy: What's behind new US strategy on China?

Tensions between the US and China are longstanding but the pandemic and a looming presidential election have amplified the rivalry, and this week the war of words hit a new peak. What's the US strategy?

This week President Donald J Trump turned a corner with his 2020 re-election campaign.

"China will do anything they can to have me lose this race," he told the Reuters news agency.

His sharpening rhetoric against Beijing marked a new phase in an effort to reframe an election that's been reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic.

And it signalled rockier times for the already rocky relationship between the world's two biggest economies.

The Trump campaign had planned to make America's booming economy its centrepiece, but that has tanked. And polls show decreasing support for the president in key battleground states amidst criticism of his corona crisis performance.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 25, 2020

Why US-China relations are at their lowest point in decades -- Barbara Plett Usher, BBC

No end in sight to the US-China confrontation -- Dang Yuan, DW

Why Beijing didn’t shut down US consulate in Hong Kong -- Alex Lo, SCMP

US-China relations: would a Mark Esper visit to Beijing ease tensions, or add to the confusion? -- Wendy Wu, SCMP

Can the US-China relationship ever go back to the pre-Donald Trump days? -- Shi Jiangtao and Jane Cai, SCMP

China Refuses to Quit on the Philippines -- Derek Grossman, The Diplomat

China’s Bhutan Gambit -- Sudha Ramachandran, The Diplomat

Analyst: North Korea provocation could occur after U.S. election -- Elizabeth Shim, UPI

Lebanon swings between humor and tragedy as economy crumbles -- Tom Allinson, DW

Turkey's maritime claims in the Mediterranean Sea raise thorny legal questions -- Panagiotis Kouparanis, DW

Algeria, Tunisia on sidelines of regional diplomacy over Libya conflict -- Simon Speakman Cordall, Al-Monitor

Forty years ago, the Shah of Iran died in exile -- France 24

Belarus leader's power creeps as opposition swells -- Nikolaj Nielsen, EU Observer

Unmasking the EU’s coronavirus recovery fund — the fine print -- Arthur Sullivan, DW

What the “Defunding the Pentagon” Articles Don’t Tell You -- Thomas Spoehr, RCD

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