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There is a common argument in popular Chinese analysis of the trade war, that the US is divided. Dem vs. GOP, Media and IT coalition vs. Energy and Manufacturing coalition, Globalists vs. Nationalists, 99% vs. 1%. The naming and division of camps vary in different theories, the judgment on the hostility of different camps are different as well, however, the analysis all agree that while the camps have consensus in launching the trade war, they have different objectives in the trade war, and are competing with each other. On the US side, people talk China as a whole, the opponent is China or Xi or Vice premier Liu He. Interestingly, both people in China and people in States believe the United China doesn’t want a trade war. Do you think the US is divided in the US-China trade dispute? And if so, can we suggest the trade war is more of a civil war in the States as China is apparently dragged into the war?

I know the Global development policy in your title means development policy in the world not for the world, however, the US is apparently playing against China 2025 on the world stage proving that it does have a development policy for the world in mind. Is the US role-playing the USSR, asking China to focus on consumer goods manufacturing like the USSR asking NK to focus on advanced machinery? There was no market economy between the socialist countries, but the USSR did provide NK everything else it needed. Today, China is still under technological embargo in the capitalist world market. Can we say the US’s global development policy is more coercive, abusive and predatory than the Soviet Union’s?

Thank you.