Elephant Sumo in the Pacific: How the US-China Rivalry Is Reshaping the World Between Eye-Twitches
The world’s longest, most expensive staring contest is back on. Washington and Beijing have once again squared off across the Pacific, pupils dilated, wallets open, each daring the other to blink first while the rest of us try to remember when this stopped being metaphorical and started costing real money. From semiconductor embargoes that read…