How Donald Trump is helping to make China great again

Throughout the 2016 election campaign, the now President Trump made it plain that China was one of the US’ main competitors on the world stage. But what if Trump’s policies of economic nationalism and retrenchment may be actually helping China? David W. Wise argues that while the Obama administration sought to counterbalance the rise of China, US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Trump’s proposed cuts to research and innovation funding leaves an opening on the world stage that China may be very eager to fill.