US foreign policy towards China during the Trump presidency

Abstract

: Th e aim of this article is to present the main motives, assumptions and dimensions of the US foreign policy towards the People’s Republic of China during the Trump presidency. Th e essence and purposefulness of the slogans, threats and attacks used by Donald Trump. Checking useness of the slogans „America First” and „make America great again” in the 2016 election campaign and while in offi ce; their implications for the most serious structural competitor in the international arena, which is already the People’s Republic of China on many levels. In the autho-r’s opinion, the turn of successive US presidential offi ces towards the PRC and the Asia-Pacifi c region in recent years is dictated not only by economic factors, but also by a wide range of collision paths and serves to maintain the position of the US hegemon in the region in the face of the growing power of the PRC. When Trump took offi ce in 2017, he used the Chinese threat as the cornerstone of foreign policy. To illustrate the nature of the involvement of the Trump against PRC the focus was on the dimensions of the analyzed issue: mainly diplomatic and mutual economic relations , especially blast of trade war and less military aspects. Article shows what measures were applied under the so-called the trade war between the US and the PRC and the evolution of the measures used. Th e continuity of US-China relations by successive presidents was also noted, and it was considered whether the relations are clearly doomed to confrontation. Th e purpose of this paper is to analyze the manifestations of the changes taking place in US foreign policy during the Trump presidency. Th e hypothesis of the work is that the American turn towards the PRC is inevitable, and it is dictated to a large extent not only by purely economic factors, but this turn serves to maintain the strong position of the US in the region in the face of the growing imperialist tendencies of Chinese power. Analysing the most important aff