Shake-Up Could Affect Tone of U.S. Policy on China

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the departures could alter the tone of the administration’s approach to China, one of its most vital but difficult relationships.

Alas, we have to get used to US administrations and their failures characterized as emblematic of "difficult relationships" -- That successive administrations fail in what are they themselves admit are their most important relationships, is indicative of a deeper, structural problem within US policy making establishment, the revolving door between public service and privately funded institutes, represents a key facet of that structural problem.