China, America and the Kindleberger Trap

The impact of the US turning its back on the world

Hello and welcome back to What China Wants.

Five years ago, at the height of the Covid pandemic, I wrote a piece for The Critic magazine in the UK called China, America and the Kindleberger Trap (you can read it here). In it, I showed how “China is filling the void of retreating American influence”.

This was a time when the US, under Trump 1.0, was threat…