“Bumpy” US-China relations will persist for decades as the rivalry shifts from trade to the weaponisation of strategic sectors and supply chains, according to a former head of the World Trade Organization. Bilateral ties will experience “ups and downs, and to and fro, and left and right”, said Pascal Lamy, former WTO director general, during a media event at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. “Their geostrategic competition… will not abate,” he said. “If you have both…



Implying that the Us will be there in 50 years is generously optimistic.