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“If the U.S. doesn’t hit the brakes and continues to barrel down the wrong track,” China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on March 7, “no amount of guardrails can prevent the carriage from derailing and crashing, and there will surely be conflict and confrontation.” He also spoke of “catastrophic consequences.”

The unusually pointed warning followed that of Chinese ruler Xi Jinping of the day before. “Western countries, led by the U.S., are implementing all-round containment, encirclement, and suppression against us,” he told the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing.

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These comments suggest a marked deterioration in relations between Washington and Beijing. What is happening?

“We have to not rule out the stratagem of the empty fortress,” tweeted City University of New York’s Ming Xia, one of America’s most astute China watchers, on March 8.

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