US-China rivalry is poised to intensify under the Trump administration

Reuters/Kevin Lamarque With the legacy of President Barack Obama on US foreign policy soon to be a subject for historians, it is time to consider how US-China relations fared under his eight-year term. Obama’s two four-year terms overlapped with the Chinese presidencies of Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping,who succeeded Hu in March 2013, just two months after Obama began his second term. Generally speaking, Obama might have succeeded in maintaining the relatively stable and friendly working relationshi...