{"id":51078,"date":"2018-05-18T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51078"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:04","slug":"burton-the-china-u-s-conflict-is-about-much-more-than-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/burton-the-china-u-s-conflict-is-about-much-more-than-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"BURTON: The China-U.S. conflict is about much more than trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-china-u-s-conflict-is-about-much-more-than-trade-96406?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2018%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2018%202018+CID_e3ef02dad4f20b372a971c8df89867c5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=The%20China-US%20conflict%20is%20about%20much%20more%20than%20trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0about the China-U.S. trade conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Burton writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The recent unprecedented,\u00a0high-level U.S. delegation to Beijing\u00a0has left China highly dissatisfied.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The group included U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and America\u2019s toughest China critics, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and presidential trade adviser Peter Navarro.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the weeks after the trip, reports emerged\u00a0about a \u201cscreaming match\u201dbetween Navarro, a hardline protectionist where China\u2019s concerned, and Mnunchin, who met one-on-one with his Chinese counterpart, angering Navarro.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But regardless of tensions among American officials, the United States wants to see active measures from China to unconditionally reduce America\u2019s US$375 billion annual trade deficit by US$100 billion this coming year, and another US$100 billion the year after. If not,\u00a0the U.S. says it will impose tariffs\u00a0on a total of US$150 billion in Chinese imports.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-china-u-s-conflict-is-about-much-more-than-trade-96406?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2018%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2018%202018+CID_e3ef02dad4f20b372a971c8df89867c5&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=The%20China-US%20conflict%20is%20about%20much%20more%20than%20trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Burton, an associate professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a\u00a0piece recently published in The Conversation\u00a0about the China-U.S. trade conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[4008,4104,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51079,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51078\/revisions\/51079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}