

Both the current and former president have each publicly boasted about their phone calls with the Chinese leader to highlight their own status and toughness. And President Xi Jinping has taken on an outsized persona. Biden has put democracy promotion at the center of his presidency - there's no need to guess why.

China's perceived power is so great that the idea it poses a threat is about the only issue on which Republicans and Democrats, Trump and Biden supporters can actually agree.
