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Hoffman’s specific ask was to have Harris fire Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, who has been hawkish on antitrust enforcement.

What it tells us: While Trump often signals his own hawkish economic views on China, he has also vacillated - which could spark tensions with his top foreign policy team.

The new Defence Minister, Israel Katz, who up until yesterday was the foreign minister, is more hawkish and much more in step with his boss’s thinking.

But both leading Republicans and Democrats are hawkish.

Under the Conservatives, UK-China relations blew hot and cold, between the diplomatic warmth of the so-called “golden era” to the hawkish aggression of more recent Conservative leaders.