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The rivalry between the U.S. and China is complicating the lives of companies and countries that would prefer to stay on the good side of both superpowers. Those caught in the crossfire range from U.S. airlines, which were threatened last year if they didn’t indicate on their websites that Taiwan is part of China, to Canada, which ran afoul of the Chinese when it detained a prominent Chinese tech executive at the Americans’ request.
The tensions are likely to be palpable at the annual World Economic Forum. In recent years each country has used Davos to zing the other.
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The U.S. is pressing poor countries to take assistance from it rather than China, says Scott Morris, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington. National security adviser John Bolton said in a Dec. 13 speech that the U.S. is a better choice for African nations in need of loans. China, in contrast, is happy to have recipients of its aid also take money from the U.S. and other Western sources because “it helps them reputationally” to have partners, Morris says.
