Competition between the US and China could escalate into a cold war-style rivalry as “counter-China” and “far-right populist” policymakers dominate the White House, Chinese academics say. Zhao Minghao, a senior fellow at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, said he surveyed a number of Chinese academics who concluded that “the possibility of a major US-China confrontation and armed conflict can by no means be ruled out”. Writing in the Chinese Journal of International Politics, Zhao said the US-China rivalry went far beyond trade and “the shifting mood in favour of a [US] ... (full story)