Bob Davis
As if U.S.-China relations weren’t complicated enough, the two sides are also squaring off over which side will lose face in their trade battle. In the United States, the Chinese concern about saving face is usually dismissed as pride—but U.S. President Donald Trump has made a career out of insisting that he get the upper hand in relations.
That’s a very Western form of face, according to scholars, who characterize it as the need for “honor” or individual triumph at the expense of someone else.
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