The trade war between China and US
By: Anshuman Gandhi on Friday, January 15, 2010, 05:29:28 PM
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So what exactly is the issue of the China and US trade wars. What exactly is going on here and the underlying truth and covered truths. Their have been instances where China and US both slapped higher import duties over each others products be it tyres, meat products etc. The first country which started the war was US which started it with the import duties on poultry products of China. US being a major trading partner of most nations did not expect a reply but the favour was returned by China in kind and lawsuits were filed against US at the World Trade Centre.

 

US lost a few and won a few of these lawsuits but China replied in kind to every move the US made and thus US made use of a different approach. They claimed that China was flooding the US market with cheap subsidised products thus affecting the domestic markets of US and exerting undue influence on their markets. China mentioned that they had the the cheapest available labour and were known for their low prices and so it was not their problem that US could not produce the product at those prices.

 

Also a very important point was raised that US has a total population of 7.2 million individuals who are currently unemployed and being a major part of the voting citizens thus all this messed policies by the Obama Government was to please their citizens. The moves by the US Government only influenced a very very small majority of the job market and the total saving of jobs according to certain estimates was no more then 5000 to 6000 jobs. Thus all this furore about China taking American jobs was just propaganda and pretty much a pointless pissing contest.

 

China has now become a military and economic threat to US like during the 1960's when their was tri polar world hierarchy with Russia, US and China on top. China does not act like other countries and the favour system that the US is so used to use when dealing with other major up and comers like India, Brazil among a few others does not work with China. Moreover US has been doing certain things to mess with China like improved relations to Taiwan with million dollar arms sales deals.

 

US is currently under a lot of pressure due to the mess of things they created in the middle east and in a few other countries and have now created pretty long term financial drainage system on their earnings. They are loosing heir soldeirs and billions in maintaining their armed forces in these countries and also maiantining intelligence. The US economy has proved that they no longer is infallible and there are speculations that there is another crash in the making.

 

With Chinese military strength improving and economic growth rates slated to reach double figures and the US economy surviving on positive decimal points soon China will overcome the US economy as the largest economy. Also they have billions invested in the US Treasury bonds and thus have a lot influence on the US. They are already the biggest exporters in the market and have started increasing their sphere of influence to other countries like Australia, Iran, South American countries and South East Asian countries among a host of other countries.

 

Slowly China is taking the place of US when their was a power vaccum in many countries when US toned down their workings in these countries due to the recession. China has even entered into deals with Canada and Mexico and buying out many brands which are the epitome of American capitalism. China has become strong and even if its not will become strong enough to face the US on more or less equal terms.

 


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