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China's efforts to win hearts and minds with aid and investment may make all the difference if there's a cold war with the US

  • Written by Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
imageVenezuela Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, center, greets the arrival of medical specialists and supplies from China in March.AP Photo/Matias Delacroix

U.S.-China relations are the worst they’ve been in decades – at least since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June 1989, which led to almost complete international isolation of China.

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