Globalization and Power Strategies: A Look at the US-China Trade War

This paper aims to explain why the current US-China trade war has emerged, by highlighting the key ideas of their power strategies in this new era of globalization, while using power transition theory’s key independent variables, as stigmatized by its author, Abramo Fimo Kenneth Organski. Of course, in this new era of globalization, the era of great transformations and complex, United States and China seem to be developing two opposing visions of power strategies, the first in the sense of conservation and the second in affirmation’s sense. The exponential rise of one almost frightens another, at the risk of losing relatively, totally or quasi-totally its position, prestige, honor, legitimacy and advantages in the international arena. This is what makes their engagements to each other develop several facets at the same time: "soft", "hard", "smart", "special soft" or "special hard". At the same time, this makes possible ideas of cooperation, competition, conflict and war between them. Hence the emergence of the current US-China trade war, defined as a clash’s product of the combination of American's conservatism with the affirmation, rise of China, which began at the beginning of the year 2018 which, under pretext of the trade deficit dating back to the 1980s, United States now wants to settle all these accounts with Chin