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Commentary:

US-China

tension, is

the November President Trump and President XI at the G20 summit on OSAKA, Japan

election the election, many around the world pray Moreover, with more than 38 million

solution they are right with Trump. unemployment claims having been
filed in just nine weeks of COVID-19,
Joe Biden has been ahead of Donald
Trump in most national polls since the America cooperation in limiting the
start of the year. He has hovered around pandemic’s economic costs.
50% in recent months and has had a America must subordinate geopolitical
10-point lead on occasions. rivalry so as to confront a threat that
s voters in America head to the
Apolls on 3 November, to decide on Tensions between the US and China doesn’t respect borders; this is besides,
whether Donald Trump remains in the have been on the rise again lately, and safeguarding a global economy that is
White House, global attention is focused while increasing bilateral antagonism deeply integrated with the rest of the
on three issues that could determine is nothing new, particularly since US world.
the outcome. First, is the way has dealt President Donald Trump took office in Whether the US and China can sort
with the coronavirus, which has been 2016, the latest bout comes at a time when out their differences and achieve some
criticized poor. the global economy is experiencing its semblance of normalcy again matters
The others are the manner he responded darkest hour since the Great Depression. a great deal in determining whether
to the killing of George Floyd in May The global economy has been battered by the global economy can head back to
and the Black Lives Matter protests that the COVID-19 pandemic, ironically, the recovery in the months ahead.
followed on one hand and the China-US virus that causes the disease originated As it stands, the coronavirus outbreak
relation on the other. All of these have from China, a nexus that Trump took up has affected lives and businesses so
become campaign issues that he cannot as a campaign issue himself, and in the much, so that, slower trade flows
ignore. hope it would deflect national criticism, between any two countries in general is

Trump is being challenged by Joe Biden, against him in an election year. hardly surprising. Indeed, the US trade
Democratic Party nominee, who is To have these two countries, which deficit with China has gone down as well
best known as Barack Obama’s vice- together account for about 40 per cent of to US$53.9 billion in the first quarter –
president, although, he is a man who has the global economy, bickering with each the narrowest quarterly trade gap since
been in US politics since the 1970s. other is dangerous and is slowing down 2014.

And as the election day approaches, what global economic growth. This indicate that even as China might
has been concerning most globally, on Since January, however, every country have bought fewer goods from the US,
top of the campaign issues list, remains in the world is trying to battle an the Americans have also cut down its
the tension between the US and China. unprecedented health crisis and the purchases of Chinese goods over the
The US-China tension has morphed economic slowdown that came with the same period due to China’s production
into a multi-front tussle - including the pandemic, the additional geopolitical disruption and a decline in US end-
race to dominate the next technological uncertainties in the name of trade wars demand.
dispensation, including the race to could complicate things. Far from fighting the COVID-19 crisis,
discover a working coronavirus vaccine. As the US COVID-19 death toll inches the election seems to have heightened
While national polls can be a good guide close to the 200,000 mark, America the Trump administration’s commitment
as to how popular a candidate is in an and the world have no greater interest to antagonism with China, blaming
election and they’re never necessarily than containing the coronavirus, the the Chinese for the outbreak that has
a good way to predict the result of the November elections notwithstanding. ravaged America.

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