China and the U.S. Are Careening Toward a South China Sea Crisis

Craig Singleton

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Last November’s summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Woodside, California, was hailed as a harbinger of progress in stabilizing a superpower relationship that was spiraling toward conflict. Yet more than eight months later, it’s evident that leader-to-leader engagement merely extended the illusion of constructive bilateral engagement—reinforcing, rather than reversing, the declining trend lines in the U.S.-China relationship.