Wall Street Journal: The possibility of a Cold War between China and the US has increased

For decades, trade and investment between China and Washington, regardless of their ups and downs, was the only factor that kept the two global powers together.

But today, with the control of the economic relations between China and the US, it seems that they are going beyond trade relations, which will deepen the conflict and tensions among the sides’ efforts to form their own blocks.

Scenario

The Wall Street Journal reported in a report: The current scenario seemed out of mind one day. Washington and Beijing in the first round of US President Donald Trump’s presidency were both reluctant to break their intertwined relations completely. Their first trade war lasted for two years, including continuous negotiations and concerns over the spread of tensions by both sides.

This time, the two countries have imposed trade restrictions against each other in less than three months and have brought economic war to a new territory. In the meantime, overall global security and economic stability have become a worrying issue in the coming years.

“The United States and China are in economic segregation,” said Rick Waters, a former senior diplomat that now runs China at the Carnegie Foundation, and it does not appear to be preventing tensions from spreading and pulling it from business to other areas. ” The argument that we are not in a Cold War has become more difficult.

China’s tools to deal with the US will go beyond business

The newspaper went on to point out that the Chinese government was expecting a confrontation with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, saying: “After Washington’s widespread tariffs against Beijing, its tools to confront the United States are limited to economic weapons such as mutual tariffs, the name of US companies on blacklisted and limited the blacklist.”

According to sources that consult with Chinese officials, Beijing’s recent statements that another have no work with responses such as conflicting tariffs show that it may go for non -economic methods.

Both countries have accused each other of carrying out cyber attacks. Sources say one of the options that Beijing has, including the use of this data, contact information and other information collected over the years is to penetrate the computer networks, water and sewage facilities, airports in the US and other targets in the country as leverage.

Beijing can also use strategic pressure and threat to US partners, especially in the Indian-Saram region, at a time when there seems to be doubts about the Trump administration’s commitment to secure the region.

Settlement of the parties from calling to resolve disputes

Another part of this article, referring to Beijing’s refusal to diplomatic consultations to resolve disputes, says: Beijing has refused to call Trump’s invasion of calling. Recently, in the midst of commercial tensions, Trump had tended to contact his Chinese counterpart Shi Jinping. Informed sources say Trump administration officials have suggested Chinese diplomats that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi would contact US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. But so far, Beijing has not been willing to contact any of these levels.

Political consultants in Beijing seeking a way to minimize political spending on object’s rule, including Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hassan Long, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman refer to potential interviews with Trump. But these conversations have not made any progress in any of these capitals, despite the lack of rushing the parties to negotiate.

Trying to attract the support of allies

The Wall Street Journal in the final section said: The two world powers in this impasse are seeking to accompany their allies in the battle. The Trump administration is currently seeking an agreement with dozens of countries to isolate China by cutting off trade relations. Meanwhile, Shi and his senior companions have tried to remove business partners from the United States in recent days.

The recent visit of the Chinese president to Vietnam in Southeast Asia and the parties’ agreement to deepen their strategic partnership shows how much the area is turning into Beijing and Washington.

Another of China’s goal is to influence and attract European Chinese partners who are concerned about Trump’s approach to the Ukrainian war, and are sidelined with Washington’s separate talks with Kiev and Moscow to draw a peace program without the participation of European supporters.

According to foreign policy experts, if this economic war is accelerated, the two sides may expand their tools to deal with each other.

“We are witnessing the biggest trade war in history,” said Yun Sun, director of the China Stimson Center in Washington. The danger of this economic war to other areas is very high.

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