How China’s expanding footprint puts it on a collision course with Trump’s America, raising the spectre of a new cold war

Beijing has, in recent weeks, been increasingly supplying hundreds of millions of masks and other medical equipment and resources – including Chinese doctors and nurses – worldwide, promoting China’s post-coronavirus efforts and introducing an additional component of President Xi Jinping’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative: the “health silk road”. This clearly follows the Stalinist dictum that the Chinese have adopted as their favoured doctrine since the late 1950s: quantity has a quality of…

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