Us-China Relationship

Foreign policy between the United States and China has never been smooth sailing. The relationship started off rocky with events such as the Peoples Republic and Tiananmen Square massacre and evolved into China being our biggest creditor and largest holder of U.S. debt (Alessi, Carin, and Zissis Pg. 1). Even though the United States aims for a strong, mutually enabling relationship with China, we are more realistically faced with a parasitic relationship, with China as the host. The United States and China have a very rocky relationship today, due to their harsh past. China’s and America’s first interactions occurred in 1949, involving the People’s Republic of China. It was under Mao Zedong’s rule post communisms defeat of a nationalist
Relations With China para. 2). The United States and China work hard and quite efficiently together when it comes to the environmental protection of China. In July of 2013, the U.S.-China Climate Change Working Group came up with a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They agreed to work hard to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, promote carbon capture, increase energy efficiency in buildings and transportation, and promote smart grids (Greater China Engagements). Human rights, on the other hand, are still a sort of disagreement. China and the United States have different viewpoints when it comes to human rights. America, being a republic, believes all people should live freely with natural rights. China, being communist, believes it’s the government’s job to tell its citizens how to live. Therefore, human rights are a touchy subject amidst the two countries, but American still tries very hard to help China’s citizens obtain the same rights we have. The United States and China also work together to address pandemic diseases and their threat on the human population. Both countries are advanced in medication and sciences, so together they make a great team in avoiding
China imports $411 billion worth of goods to the United States yearly; while the Unites States exports only $129 billion to China. That leaves the United States at a $282 billion deficit towards trade. China accounts for three-fourths of the trade deficit growth and is also the United States’ second largest trade partner (Alessi, Carin, and Zissis pg. 21). China has also loaned America $1.2 trillion to aid in our debt issue. China is the biggest creditor of the United States. They own more of the United States than the amount owned by U.S. households (Alessi, Carin, and Zissis pg. 18). China is able to help the United States’ economy so much because they are the second largest economy themselves (Alessi, Carin, and Zissis pg.