The election of Donald Trump as American President in 2016 can be seen as a crucial moment for the West’s relationship with China to change.
Sure, also before, the United States and its allies had been annoyed about China’s disrespect for intellectual property, tensions over Taiwan had been running a long way back and China had been siding with Russia at the UN, for example when it comes to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq or NATO’s Libyan campaign in 2011.
