The Chinese Factor in the Foreign Economic Contradictions between the USA and the EU

Countering China represents a systemic conflict for the United States. In his second presidential term, D. Trump is acting much more provocatively and actively than was the case under the Democratic administration of J. Biden, implementing the policy of active containment of China's economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power, enshrined in the current 2022 US National Security Strategy. China is considered the main center of power, genuinely capable of overtaking the United States in the total volume of advanced technologies within the current decade, thereby depriving the United States of its status as the leading economic force in the modern world. The EU’s position on trade and economic relations with China remains contradictory. The question of the extent to which the European Union intends to continue to play an auxiliary role as a loyal ally of the United States in their systemic confrontation with China or to be guided by its own interests in the new configuration of the global economy of the 21st century is of fundamental importance.

trade and economic contradictions between the US and the EU, foreign economic relations between the EU and China, US national security