Mike Pence’s Speech on China; Pointing to a New Low in Relations in Previously Friendly Nation

Mike Pence gave a speech about China on October 4, 2018 which has received widespread international press coverage as representing a new hardline approach to relationships between the U.S. and China. It was even characterized in some overcharged quarters as the opening of a “New Cold War” although the speech itself hardly lives up to that inflamed billing. Analysts also should have learned by now that it is Donald Trump who runs American foreign policy, and, anything that Mike Pence or his ilk proclaim is subject to very rapid change.READ MORE