Sino–American Relations in the Trump Era

Abstract

For years, China and the United States have clashed on various issues, including trade, technology and the South China Sea. Strategic competition between the two superpowers had intensified under the Donald Trump administration, leading to worsening Sino–American bilateral relations. These tensions created resentment on both sides that influenced the respective country’s policies across a range of issues and led to a new phase of the conflict that some strategists had already characterised as a new Cold War.