Since Donald Trump took poweroffice as the President of the United States, the bilateral relations between the United States and China have become more hostile. This hostility has appeared inwhen debating many topics such as trade, the diplomatic status of Hong Kong, the possessChina's claims of China in the South China Sea, as alsowell as human rights issues related to the Muslim population in China. In this context, many analysts habe been callinghave dubbed this new rivalry as a Cold War II, emulating the United States-Soviet Union dispute alongthat characterised the second half of the twentieth century. Despite some similarities, however, one cannot neglect the many differences between the two cases.
One of these differences is related to the economy of the two countries. Instead of two different economic systems, as it was in the actual Cold War, the United States and China have intertwined and complementary economies. They are theeach other's biggest exporter and importer of each other. On the one hand, numerous U.S. companies have industrial plants in China, and the United States isare the main educational destination for hundreds of Chinese students searching for Universitylooking to get third level education. On the other hand, China is the major U.S. debt buyer and depends on the U.S. to soak upabsorb its exports.
As China’s economy and influence keepon the rest of the world keeps growing and fast worldwide, a cold war among these two nations shouldbetween this country and the U.S. shall not be expected to end without huge consequences for the entire world. That is why a cooperative approach in the relationship between United States and China relationship is a more safesafer path, not only for the two nations but also for the whole world. Issues such as climate change, artificial intelligence, the new frontiers of technology, as alsowell as poverty and inequality should be inamong the top priorities of the bilateral relations between the U.S. and China, since without these two nations there are no possible solutions forto these problems.