The common aspect: On China in U.S. politics

President Donald Trump is entering deeper into a political quagmire on 3 related fronts: America’s death toll from COVID-19 is perilously close to the emotionally essential mark of 100,000; the economy looks to be on the edge of slipping into a deep economic downturn, if not outright depression, in the wake of the pandemic effect throughout sectors; and his management of both the crises is dealing with acerbic criticism from Democrats even as the 2020 U.S. governmental election draws more detailed. On the pandemic front, Mr. Trump has actually routinely tweeted to the result that the novel coronavirus ought to be called the “China virus” and his leading officials including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have made dubious suggestions that the infection might have leaked out of a Wuhan laboratory. On the economic front, the savage trade war that roiled global markets through many of 2019 appeared to be near a resolutio