China-US Relations in the Post Trump Era

Since US President Donald Trump took charge of White House in 2017, his government termed China as revisionist power and started a Trade war with China that worsened already ongoing geopolitical rivalry between two global giants. It also challenged the established norms of international relations on many fronts by reshaping geopolitical alliances. Trump imposed tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U. S. states unfair trade practices , disrupted a longstanding bipartisan consensus on U. S. policy towards China. The U. S always has had a relation with China based on its own interests. Biden during his tenure as a vice president advocated engagement with Beijing but he criticised the paradigm shift in dealing with China during Trump reign and also objected to 2020 January s trade deal with President Xi Jinping as hollow .