TRUMP'S ECONOMIC STRUGGLE AGAINST CHINA AS A MEANS OF HYBRID DETERRENCE

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From the very beginning, the foreign policy of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, was marked by several features, among which the acceleration of the decision-making process, the actualization of bilateral relations in comparison with multilateral formats, and the economization of foreign relations are primarily highlighted. The last point was very illustratively manifested in the relations of the United States with the People's Republic of China, which can be characterized as a relationship of rivalry, in which the administration of Donald Trump set the goal of maximizing the positive trade balance due to the introduction of tariff restrictions on Chinese products. Such steps, according to the president, were also used as a means of restraining the growing influence of China and preventing possible aggressive actions against the United States of America. Starting from February to March 2017, the development of a new strategy for economic relations with China, which was supposed to fully reflect the new administration's view on these bilateral relations, began on the instructions of the presidential administration. These views were reactionary, emphasizing the importance of reducing the openness of the US economy to Chinese goods and identifying tariff restrictions as a key factor in controlling the export-import balance in the relations between the two countries. Ideologically, such views corresponded to the permanent tradition of American isolationism, which saw economic autarky and rejection of the globalized economy as an advantage and guarantee of the stability of the economic and social system of the United States. At the same time, within the framework of relations with the People's Republic of China, the administration of Donald Trump has repeatedly emphasized the need to restrain China's geopolitical activity in the South China Sea and around Taiwan. In this context, trade policy began to be perceived and used as a tool of non-military hybrid pressure on official Beijing to influence its foreign policy decisions and course correction to one that would be more in line with the interests of the US and its allies in the region.

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