Saturday, August 24, 2019

Is America's Engagement With China Over?

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping chat as they walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Michael Barone, RCP: The End of America's 30-Year Engagement With China?

Will the demonstrations in Hong Kong come to be seen as the end of a 30-year period, beginning with the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, of the American-Chinese economic engagement and entanglement christened "Chimerica" by historian Niall Ferguson?

Quite possibly, and without regard to what happens in Hong Kong. President Donald Trump's on-and-off tariff threats to China have shown his willingness to upend U.S.-China economic ties. Unlike his predecessors, he regards imports from China as harmful. They may provide cheap clothes and toys to American consumers, but they also seem to have destroyed more American manufacturing jobs than expected.

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WNU Editor: America's engagement with China will continue, but it will be different. Especially if President Trump is re-elected in 2020.

1 comment:

Hans Persson said...

Personally I don't really care about Trump, it's cool to see someone from the outside to be elected to rattle everyone, but really, I don't care. What would the news-cycle be talking about if he wasn't the president? The Kardashians? Its going to be super interesting to see what happens when he is re-elected (yes he is going to be re-elected). Would they still talk about the made-up russian story? Impeachment? As I said, its going to be interesting.