Title:

 China's moment of truth

Author:

Minxin Pei

Source:

Nikkei Asian Review

Date:

August 7, 2018

Description:

It takes a trade war for China to face its moment of truth. Before the U.S.-China trade war escalated from a skirmish to a full-frontal clash, the conventional wisdom was that China's closed one-party regime was much better positioned to withstand the political fallout from a trade war than America's fissiparous democracy.