Are you a Marxist, a realist or a believer in the accident theory of history? Each school of thought suggests a different way of analysing the crisis in US-Chinese relations.
A trade war is well under way between the world's two largest economies, and talk of a new cold war is now common in both Washington and Beijing.
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