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Shaun Narine, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, St. Thomas University (Canada)

While the U.S. threatens tariffs and builds walls around its economy, China opens up

The United States is threatening to impose tariffs on its major trading partners. In the meantime, China is consolidating its position as the world’s manufacturing and technological innovation hub by increasing trade with the Global South.

If the American role in globalization has been to consume the world’s products and resources by building on a foundation of ever-increasing debt, China’s has been to make tangible goods for the international market.

China is opening up its economy, especially to the nations of the Global South.

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