China, a new existential challenge for America

For the past seven years, conservative intellectual David Goldman, former chief analyst at the Bank of America and iconoclastic columnist for the Asia Times newspaper , has been watching America's new "Sputnik moment" against a China that has, he says. , acquired the “means to ruin ourselves” and to surpass ourselves soon. The formula alludes to the brutal shock in American strategic circles caused by the sending of a Soviet satellite into space in 1957. Feeling left behind by the "Sputnik", the United States had worked hard.

Could the coronavirus crisis be the occasion for such a turnaround against Beijing?

For the moment, David Goldman says he sees nothing convincing coming from him, except a heated rhetoric which blames the Chinese for the Wuhan virus and brandishes the threat of reparations. When a misfortune occurs, he notes, quoting an American psychiatrist, the first reaction is denial, before we fall into anger, then we start to haggle, before finally

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