Trade war forces China to decouple with the United States

The escalation of customs duties sought by Donald Trump creates the conditions for a upheaval for the world economy: the irremediable removal of the world's first two industrial, technological and financial powers.

By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, Latin American Summary, April 17, 2025. Perhaps many people think that the conflict between the United States and China is recent and that its characterization as a “trade war” allows explaining the essence of it, but neither is real. Exalting this confrontation within the framework of [...] La entrada Pensamiento Crítico. La guerra [integral] de Estados Unidos contra China se publicada primero en Summary Latinoa…

CNN Portugal's journalist, Sandra Almeida Azevedo, relates Chinese President Xi Jinping's visits to Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia to the trade war with the United States.

Ricardo Valcárcel, an economic analyst, writes: We are living a historic stage in which an empire decays, the U.S., while the rival China emerges, which is gradually becoming the most powerful country on earth.The struggle for world supremacy is intensifying.This has already been going on for more than a decade, with various twirls of both without having come to such an open confrontation as the tariff war initiated recently by Donald Trump.LEE …

By increasing tariffs on products arriving in the United States, Donald Trump hopes to see companies (re)localize their production in his country. A strategy that has already been followed by announcements in this direction.

While he embarked on a trade war with the rest of the world by being convinced of his position of strength, Donald Trump could well come out ...