摘要
Characterized by increasing consideration of non-economic factors, Trump's economic and trade policy toward China mirrors a dramatic concern about and increasing alert against China's growing power. Besides handling differences with sufficient wisdom to avoid strategic misjudgment, enlarging common economic interests can make the "Chinese Dream" and "Make America Great Again" promote rather than restrain each other.
During the early days of Trump’s administration,the Mar-a-lago summit,held between US and Chinese leaders,once injected high-level momentum into bilateral trade talks and laid a solid foundation for the release of the initial actions of the China-US Economic Cooperation 100-Day Plan.The bilateral trade relations began amicably early in Trump’s presidency.However,the US soon began to play hardball against China,initiating anti-dumping and countervailing investigations and imposing punitive duties on several Chinese imports,and launched the Section 301 investigation on what it alleged was China’s theft of US intellectual property.The US also denied China’s market economy status,promoted reforms that gave a stronger hand to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States(CFIUS),vetoed several mergers and acquisitions cases involving Chinese investment in the US and interfered in the relevant operations of Chinese enterprises.Recently,it has even spearheaded Chinese products and investment in strategic hightech fields.This policy transition not only embodies Trump’s“America First”principle but also shows that non-economic factors have played an increasingly important role in US policy-making.
作者简介
Gong Ting is Assistant Research Fellow at the Department for American Studies,China Institute of International Studies(CIIS).
