China is, as the national intelligence strategy of the U.S. suggests, the only peer competitor with the capability and will to upend U.S. hegemony status and reshape the international system. China is the lynchpin to many of America’s foreign and domestic problems.

China is involved in America’s fentanyl epidemic, a panic over America’s technological superiority in artificial intelligence, a debate over the appropriate role of social media and foreign influence in American society, and the target of a vast range of industrial policies to spur America’s reindustrialization. No matter the issue, policymakers are forced to consider how legislation affects the U.S.-China competition.

China remains a rare area of bipartisan agreement among the American public and legislators. Multiple polls show that regardless of demographics or political ideologies, Americans are skeptical toward China and willing to support leaders who confront Beijing.

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