Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — The Big Lie has become bigger. The false claim of a rigged, stolen 2020 United States presidential election embraced by Donald Trump and his cult has brought about the end of fact-based accountability. This is having profound and lasting implications on a deeply troubled China-US relationship.
Sinophobia is a visible manifestation of how the Big Lie has corrupted norms of the American body politic. Irrational fears of China have taken on a life of their own. That includes any of a number of alleged threats to the US: China's large share of the US trade deficit; the feared back door of Huawei's fifth generation network; Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) and dock-loading cranes; the vulnerability of US infrastructure to a so-called Volt Typhoon hacking network; and the potential of TikTok to assault the character and privacy of innocent American teenagers.
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