In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election in 2024, Chinese policymakers and intellectual elites feared the worst for relations between China and the United States. The bitterness and trauma of the first Trump administration’s trade war lingered in Beijing. And with an already sluggish economy and glaring vulnerabilities from trade interdependence, China’s leaders braced for what experts privately called an “unprecedented storm” that could doom bilateral relations.

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