Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

China Took On the World — and Now It Faces a Reckoning

A hardening of relations between the US and its rival superpower might not be so inevitable anymore.

November 7, 2023 at 5:00 AM EST

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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Consider these numbers: China is home to 1.4 billion people, about 18% of the planet’s total population; 22.3 million people live in Shanghai and 11.7 million in Beijing alone. It has the world’s second-largest economy and has been on track to eventually overtake the US. Its geographic footprint is vast, covering more than 3.6 million square miles.

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