The Global Economic Playing Field

Why China is winning and why it will continue to win

In the third debate for the democratic nomination for President of the United States, there was one notable point in which democratic candidates actually agreed with the president. Most democratic candidates (9 of the 10) agreed that Trump’s tariff on China will remain, or at least will not immediately be lifted if the government changes in 2020.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/08/13/u-s-views-of-china-turn-sharply-negative-amid-trade-tensions/pg_2019-08-13_us-views-china_0-04/

As the data on the left shows, Americans have increasingly come to view China as ‘unfavourable’. Its not just the public, one in five companies, many of whom donate to political campaigns, say that China has stolen their intellectual property within the last year. This has made it politically advantageous for candidates to endorse or rather not renounce the idea of tariffs as a way to counter China’s actions with respect to intellectual property and global surveillance.

So what now? Trump (by extension the republicans) and the Democrats agree on China — specifically that it is a threat to American and global geo-politics. Why then is the title of the article, “The global economic playing field: Why China is winning and why it will continue to win”.