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# Provide examples of the recent conflicts, tensions as well as agreements btw countries and companies

## US -- China, 2016-2020

- Trump accused China of protectionist trade policies (duties and quotas, state subsidies, restrictions on market access and intellectual properties rights theft);
- imposed tariffs on ($360+ billion) Chinese goods to encourage consumers to buy American goods;
- China has retaliated with tariffs on more than $110 billion of US products;
- Dec 2017: new US national security strategy saying China is a revisionist power with goals "antithetical to the interests and values of US";
- Jan 2020: the "Phase One Deal" signed: roll back tariffs and trade purchase, China's to buy $200 billion of American goods in ~2yrs
- January 2020: covid postponed negotiations indefinitely, the trade's on halt, economic hostilities persist
- The Trump's policy has failed to change Chinese trade practices.
