The China–United States trade war.
The world’s leading economic
superpowers are locking horns. The game is on, trade war between US and China
is here. For about past two years America and china have been trading goods with
increasing tariff. impact of this has been felt across industries worldwide in
good and bad ways, so what is the story about America china trade war? Let’s try to understand.
For many years Chinese economy is
boosting so fast, that it has now become a rival of US and also a threat to their
position of superpower.
After world war 1 , world war 2 and cold war with Russia,
America is now going to face a very strong opponent which is china. Now let’s
see how war experienced Americas new president, trump handles this situation.
Now Trump wants to contain china for which he is trying to start
strong allies with many countries like India, Japan, and India’s first made in India
product that is Pakistan .
In order to remain superpower, it
is necessary for America to take actions against Chinese growth in all sectors
and make it harder for china to trade and influence US market. While for china
to compete America and become next superpower they have to keep their momentum
and overcome any resistance by America.
So, in this article let’s see how
this war started and has affected global economy.
China has shown a dramatic economic
rise. In 1978 china’s GDP was just 6% of that of America. While in 2018 it was observed
to become 66% of American GDP.
In 1978 when china started increasing
trades with world and soon became worlds factory. Many countries started
importing from china including America.
In 1988 America became
the country to import 15% of Chinese exports.
In 2001 china joined world trade organization
with help of America they also said that china joining world trade organization
was win win situation. Which would promote right kinds of changes in china.
But soon after joining world
trade organization china had become economic superpower, but their dream was to
become more like western capitalist economy.
This success of china was unbearable
for America and they started claiming that Chinese success was by playing
unfair. In 2016-17 America started working on a report to investigate economic
practices of china and find out if china has done anything unfair which could
be causing problems for American economy.
They claimed that china was
treating Chinese companies differently such that they had better competitive advantage
with western companies. In tech industries china was spotted spying and
stealing tech from other countries for commercial purposes which was highly
unfair.
In 2018 America imposed 25% tariffs
on Chinese products. And then kept on increasing hence forth. With every rise
in tariffs by America China also started increasing their tariffs. And since beginning
of trade war china almost doubled their tariff rates while America tripled.
The International
Monetary Fund (IMF) said the escalation of US-China trade tension was one
factor to have contributed to a "significantly weakened global
expansion" late last year as it cut its 2019 global growth forecast.
Some countries may
also be indirectly impacted - especially those that are important trading
partners for the US or China - or play key roles in their supply chains.
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