BEIJING — Donald Trump's Cabinet of China hawks have likened the nation's communist rulers to Nazis, leveled Covid-19 conspiracies at them, declared a Cold War and flagged much greater military support for Taiwan.

That is likely to leave Beijing watching warily, experts say, as the United States president-elect surrounds himself with a group of hardliners who spit strong rhetoric and back confrontation with China.

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