Motives and Implications of the United States v. China Trade War

Abstract

Sino-US trade war is a very significant problem that both countries, and therefore the world, have been facing for five years. This conflict is an extremely important topic for International Relations, and thus for social science because it can lead to the establishment of a new world order in which China becomes the dominant state that rules the world according to its worldviews. The aim of this article is to inform the readers about the importance of the Sino-US conflict, with a special emphasis on the fact that this conflict is not only of an economic nature, i.e. it is not based only on the deficit that the United States has when it comes to goods/money exchange with China (although this is an important dimension), it also has an
ideological and political dimension, which is probably far more significant. Using the method of empirical, critical analysis of available information from relevant sources, this paper analyzes some of the key reasons why the economic conflict itself started when Trump was at the head of the US. Furthermore, this paper offers some of the possible outcomes of the conflict between the US and China itself, offering a critical consideration of how likely each outcome is, and after analyzing direct armed conflict and reconciliation as possible outcomes, settles on a Cold War between the US and China as the most likely scenario which may follow from the tensions between the two states. In addition, the paper shows which country is winning in the conflict. The paper is a good starting point to initially introduce readers to the problem of economic conflict between the US and China, however, a basic understanding of the problem before reading this paper is recommended in order to understand the paper to its full capacity.