While recent comments from the White House and reports from Beijing suggest the two sides may be looking to cut back on at least some of the tariffs, it’s hard to imagine that the world’s most important economic relationship will return entirely to normal or that the tension won’t spill over into noneconomic areas. The fact that the US may be at least partly reliant on China to build the drones it wants in order to potentially fight China highlights the most bizarre difference between the US-China relationship and previous instances of superpower competition: Never before have two military rivals been this economically dependent on each other. “If the tariff war continues in its current format, most likely we’re looking at the decoupling of the two economies, and that will give the two countries potentially less incentive to try to work out issues together,” said Yun Sun, director of the China program at the Stimson Center.
Author: Joshua Keating
Published at: 2025-04-29 22:14:58
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