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As China and America clash over trade, cracks emerge in each side’s position
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Though much remains to be resolved in the world’s most important relationship

It has spent years pinpointing America’s weaknesses and mitigating its own

Just avoiding a renewed clash will count as success

Mutual vulnerability is no substitute for global leadership

And China is gaining in the process

It sees Donald Trump as both symptom and accelerant of the decline