#USChinaTensions What does the current trade confrontation between the USA and China consist of? What is at stake and how does it manifest?

— This is a continuation of the economic, political, and strategic confrontation between China and the USA. The conflict entered an active phase during Trump's first presidential term in 2016, although it had been brewing before that. Both during the Bush and Obama administrations, the USA already suspected that China was growing rapidly — and could potentially take the place of the world's leading power. Since this realization, the USA has been taking active measures to prevent this.

Currently, this is about economic confrontation. Its main tool has become tariffs — they could now rise to 245%. But this does not mean that it will be limited to just them: both America and China have other tools. The question now is how far Trump can go in harming not only the American economy but the global economy as well.