THE Donald Trump has declared war against ChinaBelieving that at the moment Beijing is Washington’s largest competitor and, through duties, he is seeking a more general negotiation that will lay new foundations in the US and China relations and tilt the scales towards the US president.
The conflict between the US and China begins to take the form of trade war with unpredictable consequences. But competition between the two Titans is not limited to the commercial level.
The United States and China, with an area of more than nine million square kilometers each, are included with Canada and Russia in the four largest countries in the world.
However, China of 1.4 billion inhabitants at the end of 2024, according to national statistics, is the second population in the world after India, with a four -fold population from the United States.
The United States is the first economic power in the world. Their GDP exceeded $ 29,000 billion in 2024. China is following $ 18,000 billion, according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund.
In the past year the China was the world’s first export power in the world ($ 3,580 billion) and the United States the first introductory power (3.360 billion), according to the World Trade Organization.
The United States has a large deficit of the trade balance with China in the goods ($ 355 billion in 2024), according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Donald Trump imposed a 145% duties on Chinese products, with the exception of exceptions. Beijing responded by imposing 125%duties.
Champions in gas emissions
China is the largest pollutant in the world in terms of gas emissions causing the greenhouse effect and followed by the United States.
The United States had been committed to half the broadcasts by 2030 compared to 2005, but staircase Trump again announced the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
China is committed to stabilizing CO2 emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060.
The United States gave birth to Gafam, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, while China has its own high -tech giants, Batx (Baidu search engine, Alibaba for e -commerce, teens for social media smartphones).
Ai, Tiktok and… Mars
Sino -American technological competition is also manifested in field of artificial intelligence. After the launch of Chatgpt in November 2022, AI genetic models multiplied in the United States and China. The Chinese Start-Up Deepseek, founded in 2023, upset the world of artificial intelligence with the Chatbot R1 that shows the performance of its American competitors at much lower costs.
A law voted in 2024 by US Congress requires Chinese ByTedance to assign control of the American network activities Tiktokwho is accused of allowing Chinese authorities to make illegal data collection for American users, otherwise threatened with a ban on operating in the US. Donald Trump postponed the deadline for June 19th.
The United States remained in 2023 by far the first in the world in defense spending, with $ 916 billion, three times the second in the world with $ 296 billion, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).
The United States with Russia holds about 90% of nuclear weapons There are in the world, with more than 5,000 nuclear heads each at the beginning of 2024, well in front of China that holds a number ten times smaller.
China, which sent its first astronaut in 2003, has invested in recent decades billions of euros in its space program in an effort to prevent the US and Russia.
China landed in 2019 a space vehicle on the hidden side of the Moon in the world first and in 2021 it launched a small robot on Mars. It aspires to send the first manned mission to the Moon by 2030 and install there.
On the US side, NASA’s Artemis program envisions the return of American astronauts to the Moon in 2027 and future missions to Mars. To reduce the cost of space missions, NASA has chosen the cooperation with private companies for the transfer of material and technologies to the Moon for years.