A Study of the Causes of the U.S.-China Trade War

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.662How to use a DOI?

Keywords

U.S.-China Trade War, China’s Political Economy, Globalization, Anti-globalism, Development Strategy, Automobile Industry

Abstract

To understand the trade war between the US and China, it is essential to first discuss the underlying causes of the trade conflicts. This paper primarily studies major causes of the U.S.-China trade war. By reviewing and analysing the literature on China’s economic development and the evolution of U.S.-China relationship, by comparing the impacts of globalization on U.S. and China, and by exploring what we can learn from the U.S.-Japan trade conflict to understand today’s U.S.-China trade relations, we argue that there are three major forces that precipitate the U.S.-China trade war. With varying degrees of importance, the three forces are globalization, the differences on development strategies, and President Trump’s political declaration. Through our study it is shown that the U.S.-China trade war is inevitable under the recent geopolitical landscape.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuchen Jiang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - A Study of the Causes of the U.S.-China Trade War
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1032
EP  - 1040
SN  - 2352-5398
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