The United States Trade Policy Toward China's Political And Economic Analysis

In the past two hundred years, the United States and China has been stacked up against each other and cooperation with each other as well. After about two centuries'ups and downs, the Sino-US relationship have evolved into one of the most important bilateral ties, which plays an role on the international stages effected the global peace and stability. With the formatting of preparatory pattern of interdependency after China's accession to the WTO, the bilateral economic and trade relations has taken on a new connotation.The essay aimed to provide a theoretical evidence to grasp accurately the strategic direction of US trade policies toward China, and predict its policy-making trends by a deep analysis on political and economic factors, as well as internal and external control mechanism, which will effect on American's trade policies toward China.The introduction of the essay contained the purpose and significance of the study, the definition of research objectives the construction of analytical framework, while the part also clarified the logic and basic research approaches of the essay.Based on the summary of political and economic analysis of international trade policy draft processes, Chapter II made a clear picture of the framework of policy analysis which gathered the effects of international relationship, holistic paradigm and institutionalism paradigm and interest groups.Chapter III devoted to the statement of roles played by these American's trade policy-related actors (the Congress, the president and administration departments, and interest group) in the entire decision-making system and power distribution among them. Tracing to 1979, the understanding of institutional change of American's trade policy toward China will be deepened through some empirical investigation and comments on the path marked by several different stages in the American's trade policy toward China develop progress.Chapter IV is the emphasis of the essay. In this part, partial equilibrium analysis initialed from dissection of political factors has been separately executed in the sections including the national strategy for the United States, the external system constraints, and the impact of interest groups. Followed is the economic factors analysis of American's trade policy toward China through four aspects, which are the changes in the structure of economic interests, the effect caused by US economy fluctuations, Sino-US trade imbalance and economic dialogue mechanism between China and the United States. On a macro-level of national strategy, the analysis exposed the decisive constraints of US trade policy, stressed the trade-off and mutual influence between the economic interests and non-economic interests of US policy toward China, and revealed the Political and economic features represented in the US trade policy toward China.Chapter V summarized the whole essay by given out following five conclusions:①The political and economic characteristics have been obviously incarnated in the US trade policy toward China by the US trade policy decision-making mechanisms and the interaction during the decision-making process;②The national strategy of the United States is the most important factor determined the US trade policy toward China, which dominated the basic properties and leaded the direction of its trade policy.③External regime played an important role in the decision-making process of US trade policy toward China.④The US economic interests have gained an increasingly growth with the development of Sino-US economic and trade relations.⑤The United States could maximize its economic and political interests in the Sino-US trade deficit.On this basis, the essay forecasted the future behaviors of US trade policy toward China after the new president Obama's assumption of duty in 2009, that is①Sino-US trade relations will be promoted by the financial crisis;②The bilateral trade relations will be further consolidated by elevation of the senior governors'level.