Chinese relations, Chinese–U. Sino-American relations, refers to international relations between China and the United States. The history of the relationship can be traced back to when the United States first gained independence.
Both China and the US got involved in the Korean War in support of the North and the South respectively. This was the only time when soldiers from both countries actually fought as the U. China is currently the third-largest export market for U.
Canada and Mexico), and the United States is China’s largest export market. The United States and China are clearly not allies. They share no overriding security interests or political values, and their conceptions of world order fundamentally clash. Whereas Beijing looks forward to a post- American , multipolar worl Washington is trying to preserve the liberal order it leads even as its relative power wanes. This is a reaction to the excesses of ideological “globalism” (as opposed to economic globalization) in the past few decades.
While globalization simply means a world increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, travel, and information, globalism has hijacked that trend and turned it into an ideology.
