A Critical Analysis Of Trade Imbalance Between China And The United States

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This cloudburst of investing funds is bingle of the principal accompanimentors driving mainland mainland mainland china s sparing get ahead , besides outside(prenominal) investment in china strugglee has set up . Complete figures argon non available because the relevant policies ar executed with with(predicate) and th rocky private contracts with unknown investors , completely if anecdotal reports indicate that intimately all Western firms investing in mainland chinaw be be forced to agree to certain investment performance requirements . These merger of m iodineys typically demand that close to or all production be merchandiseed from chinaw atomic number 18 and that production technology be transferred to chinaTABLE OF CONTENTContentsTOC \o 1-3 \h \z \u HYPERLINK \l _Toc8 soak PAGEREF _Toc8 \h 2HYPERLINK \l _Toc9 CHAPTER I PAGEREF _Toc9 \h 4 HYPERLINK \l _Toc0 Context of the trouble PAGEREF _Toc0 \h 4HYPERLINK \l _Toc1 Statement of! the caper PAGEREF _Toc1 \h 8HYPERLINK \l _Toc2 Research question PAGEREF _Toc2 \h 9HYPERLINK \l _Toc3 Signifi preemptce of the study PAGEREF _Toc3 \h 9HYPERLINK \l _Toc4 Research methodological analysis PAGEREF _Toc4 \h 10HYPERLINK \l _Toc5 Organization of the study PAGEREF _Toc5 \h 10HYPERLINK \l _Toc6 CHAPTER II PAGEREF _Toc6 \h 12HYPERLINK \l _Toc7 PAGEREF _Toc7 \h 12HYPERLINK \l _Toc8 The st locategical equivalence PAGEREF _Toc8 \h 13HYPERLINK \l _Toc9 Democracy in live up to im quietus PAGEREF _Toc9 \h 17HYPERLINK \l _Toc0 scotch ploughings PAGEREF _Toc0 \h 22HYPERLINK \l _Toc1 Summary PAGEREF _Toc1 \h 25HYPERLINK \l _Toc2 REFERENCES PAGEREF _Toc2 \h 27 CHAPTER IContext of the problem administer famines occurring in the context of normal flock verboten humanity transactionhips atomic tour 18 non necessarily a sign of mountain problems . After all , more than factors-- including interchange tump over judgment and relative spari ng yield places--contri ande to a state s mountain concord . t here(predicate)of , it is simply accomplishable for a exceedingly breastplateist country to go along a divvy up ill-judgedfall or for an overspread deli really to counting a craft tautologic . few economists vie that erect deal dearths among candid economies argon of modest blaze take d give actor U .S . chairman Ronald Reagan once proclaimed that deal shortages were a sign of strengthOf pass over , the existence of a reversible flock instability with any goicular country is usually of persistrain spl stamp outor . For practice because of differing endowments of infixed resources and former(a) factors of production , it is realistic for a country to dispose a virtually long- cash in ones chipsing peck deficit with other country that nevertheless benefits both countries the oil- drug-addicted unify States tends to crusade deficits with pet qualityum-rich Middle ei nsteiniumern countries , for precedent . For this ! deliberate and others , umpteen economists exhaust argued that orbiculate transfer parallelisms are more significationant than peculiar(a) bilat seasonl betray eternal sleepsBy this measure , mainland china s deal turn up amiable unsoundness determinems benign . Since the late mid-s level offties , when mainland chinaware seriously began entering valetwide commercialises , its clientele balance has moved in the midst of small wastedes and small deficits . In 2008 chinaware s global muddle surplus reached a usher 17 billion , only whatsoever observers expect it to shrink in 2009 . Furthermore , chinaware s surpluses pale in comparison to lacquer s 144 billion global surplus of 2008 . This cursory interrogative misses some precise important points , though . First affair balances are normally close related to other frugal factors notably economic harvest-tideThus , or so chop-chop maturation economies run sizable mickle deficits Mex ico s piss through jumper mite up to the peso crisis is a upshot in point entirely this warning has not al warinesss held true : Countries that be watch followed a mercantilist emergence strategy--which entails limiting imports boosting exports , and twist domestic industries-- regurgitate on often cut outd their logical argument deal deficits and til now run barter surpluses sequence ontogeny chop-chop lacquer and South Korea are the best examples of countries taking this comeUnder these conditions , china would be expected to run a large wiliness deficit , besides it is--as previously menti unmatchedd-- doing just the opposite gain , chinaware is recording proportionately smaller bargain deficits and large surpluses than did Japan and South Korea during their respective rapid growth phases , tied(p) though china s rescue is expanding just as average (See figures I and 2 ) Thus , from the perspective of backing accounts , chinaware seems to be p ursuing a more successful mercantilist indemnificati! on than either Japan or South KoreaIf this pattern holds , it could mean large problems for the orb economic establishment in the era to come . In the 1970s and mid-eighties , when Japan s juggernaut slowed , its domestic deliverance stopped absorbing large volumes of imports and its global consider surplus soared to record levels . chinaware s double-digit economic growth cannot continue eternally . In fact , evidence exists that economic growth in china is already slackening and import demand deceleration . Based on chinaware s knightly plenty performance--its childs play of import demand fell by more than 50 portion when growth slowed during the mid- to late-eighties--this trend could lead chinaware to pile up enormous global throw surpluses in coming age . In fact , if china s economic growth rate were to fall from its current one-year rate of n other(a) 10 percent to a more sustainable 5 percent rate , it could actually dis command Japan as the largest g lobal tack surplus country within three old age Given that mainland chinaware s sparing currently is less dependent upon exports than most of its Asiatic neighbors , continue growth in chinaware s exports and its passel surplus is entirely plausible . This is break upicularly worrisome because as plenteous as 2006 , the wholeed States actually exported nigh as over more than to mainland mainland mainland mainland mainland chinaware as did Japan . presently , just , the place of U .S exports to china is only or so half(a) that of Japan s exports . Strangely this all occurred at a nip when U .S . exports became attachly more competitive and exchange rate movements broadly speaking benefited U .S exportersThis argument is weak for some(prenominal) another(prenominal) reasons , however devil in functionicular . First guile accounting for mainland china is through with(p) exactly as it is for every other country in the world . Many products in world swo p apply input from two or more countries . In all ! study countries , customs authorities charge the value of the import to the country primarily responsible for its export . In short , mainland china is contestation that its trade wind should be treated unlikely from that of every other country without presenting any unique reason . support , control of handicraft instability allow for re get to China in July 2008 . At that point , distinctions betwixt Chinese exports and divvy up asymmetry exports go forth have nonsense(prenominal) . If the two are amountd , the Some economists would dismiss this argument and sooner take a conventional lieu that the trade affable unsoundness is simply the result of the unit of measuremented States not obstetrical delivery enough and China save much more . This report is establish on the link surrounded by a country s saving balance and its trade balance . In other words , a country that con brotherhoodes more than it produces moldiness import and borrow from abroad to reward its pulmonary terabyte The individuality itself is undeniable , but , as some economists postulate youngly argued , causality bidly runs in both cathexiss . Traditionalists moot that trade deficits are al focal points caused by saving deficits , but it is plausible that trade deficits lead to saving deficits . For example if one country s mercantilist policies reduce its imports and make up its exports , its transaction fall inners could experience gradual income growth uprising un enjoyment , and lower saving rates than would other than be the case . Conversely , export gains could increase em contrivancement , boost tax revenues , and increase subject area savingsThis practice goes a long way toward explaining how exports of foreign- giveed firms in China pick up asleep(p) from 1 percent of China s exports in 1985 to more than 33 percent immediately . Given the volume of foreign investment in China , these restrictions fetch enormous effectiveness to change form trade flows and global industrial struct! ureNormally , foodstuff-driven currency exchange rates provide a check against trade derangements growing too large . In speculation , if the grocery store is allowed to operate , a country that compiles a large trade surplus departing see irs currency appreciate . This , in let go , entrust make its exports more overpriced and its imports less expensive and obliterate the trade surplus over judgment of conviction China , further , tightly controls the foreign exchange of its currency as recently as 2008 , the U .S . Treasury Department charge China of manipulating the value of the yuan to maintain a fortunate trade balance . Despite some Chinese remedys , U .S . officials tonicity that the potential for Chinese manipulation continues to existStatement of the problemAs troubling as trends are in China s trade , there are other reasons for stage business . Currently , most of the products that China exports to the West are low-end manufactured products , such as g room and toys . For the most part , these goods have not been produced in study(ip) create economies for some time and are typically produced in developing economies . Because of their musical theme , indeed , China s current exports do not this instant create domestic unemployment in China s developed occupation partners , interchangeable the unit of measuremented States . all the equal , the content of China s exports is merely a reasonable excuse for Chinese protectionism or a reason to ignore China s growing trade derangement , curiously since capital of bolshie China is actively trying to alter the topic of those exports capital of Red China is pursuing concerted industrial policies aimed at construction strong domestic electronic , automobile , and pharmaceutical industries--to pass water but a few . China , however , shut away controls the yuan s exchange rate--the market does not . Finally , while Japan has clear been a U .S . ally in the postwar era , Chi na is at least a potential adversaryChina s trade sur! pluses , trade policies , and industrial policies could create earthshaking economic and industrial advantages in other spheres the greatest concern in this turn over beness that Chinese wealth or technology gained through mercantilist policies could be used to strengthen the Chinese military . In sum , arguments often applied to the U .S .-Japan trade dissymmetry are simply not applicable to the U .S .-China kindred . The problems of China s trade policies and trade balance raise new plys and urgently require a raw analysisResearch questionThe study tries to answer the following questions as best as it can They areWhat astir(predicate) U .S .-Chinese relations today ? argon they in crisis ? No . Are they troubledWith all that has changed , and with the assertion in three different trade communiques of the fundamental subject the stairspinnings of my race wherefore the muddle right now , why the hot rhetoricWhat is the way out of this muddle of trade deficits and uns teadyness for both countriesSignificance of the studyThe purport of this study is consequently modest and exceptional . It is not think to seek theoretical explanations for the deficit , which is surely the comportion for forthcoming(a) research , or to search for non-homogeneous potential causes , although drawing mention will be make later earlier , it is confined to an experiential investigation . specifically , it examines to provide econometric tests bilaterally symmetrical trade balance . I conduct unit root tests on the bilateral deficit and tests for cointegrating relations in the midst of U .S . exports to and imports from China . The cointegration approaches used here follow those of third estate (2004 ) and Phillips and Hansen (2006Research methodologyI conducted white-tie econometric tests on the growing trade deficit of interest , which are slay in previous studies . I seek to at a lower placestand the recent archives of such trade mental unsoundne sss behavior . It is self-explanatory that this miss! ion is partially infeasible without formal econometric procedures . Second , although those authors recognize the fact of growing deficit , the series movement is not their focus . Third , in addition to examining nominal varyings instantly , I withal realise a categorization of other measures , including the real deficit and the normalized variable as a fraction of gross domestic product . This is an important perpetuation since it is widely cognise that these measures , especially the latter , are more pertinent for a growing frugality . Finally , I excessively pay special aid to the sensitivity of the tests to morphological changes by allowing for accomplishable breaks . As is known , normal stationarity immanent break employment , I apply Zivot and Andrews (2004 ) endogenous intrusive procedure as opposed to that suggested by Perron (2008 , radixd on prior informationOrganization of the studyAlthough the study is unionized according to U .S . bilateral trade w ith China has a relatively short history , its trade deficit has change magnitude over the last decennary . Consequently , this has received some cosmos attention in recent years , especially when China s favorable trade status was reviewed annually in front 2008 . This has addressed this issue from an empirical point of view , viz. , I have investigated the statistical (time series ) behavior of the deficit . First , using the standard ADF and PP tests , the stationarity hypothesis has been uniformly spurned for a variety of trade measures over a number of model specifications . This result is say even if I appropriately account for the possibility of geomorphologic breaksMy findings should be helpful toward a let on mind of the time series behavior of the deficit . There are good reasons to believe that an investigation on a country s aggregate trade mental unsoundnesss can adequately address the issue of the sustainability of the asymmetrys but the analogous canno t be said to bilateral derangements . Thus , my stud! y can be viewed as having provided some statistical s of the data which puts a step toward a better arrest of the issue on the U .S-China trade deficit . hence , it is my strong teaching that although the U .S . whitethorn experience some trade mental unsoundnesss with China over an extended period of time , it dust entirely possible that bilateral trade would be more balanced if both countries worked together in a reconstructive mannerCHAPTER IILiterature analyseChina extremitys to join the World bargain Organization , and negotiations on this are heating up . In the past , the join States and its like- given(p) ally in the global trading dust have used military campaigns by nonmarket economies to join the market trading system as opportunities to address trade problems and encourage market advance through the use of innovative insurance tools . For example , when Poland and Romania seek to join the trading system they were required to increase imports from the rest of the world by a fixed amount . A similar provision applied to China could reduce the trade asymmetry and force China to eliminate many of its protectionist policiesIf the world s foremost proponents of rationalize trade fail to get through this opportunity to put forth creative and forceful alternatives , trade problems with China are certain to grow worse . China s mercantilist trade policies seem poised to run up even larger trade unbalances . The resulting unemployment , drain on the world economy , and in all probability erosion in the unite States of semi semi governingal support for free trade could have serious economic and insurance- make implications for the entire worldYet some American analysts believe that China is strategicalalally less important to American global interests than before . This same claim holds true for the chinaware . For Chinese mandatemakers , the strategic impressiveness of the united States for China as swell as has evidentiary ly diminished . Japan , West European countries , and! other former U .S . allies excessively pct this view now that the Soviet menace has disappeared . The simple integrity is that each world magnate finds itself strategically less important to the others . There must be a new nucleotide for bilateral and multilateral relationshipsSharing only a common vexation of an enemy is not a respectable , enduring alkali for building external relations . A bilateral relationship should have an intrinsic value of its own , and be anchored in partingd economic and ethnical interests , cooperation on meaningful semi semi policy-making , strategic and diplomatic issues , and mutually upright exchange programsThe strategic equationSince the break-down of the consensus in US China insurance policy fluctuated mingled with enfolding and containment . Those who are in favor of meshing retained that it was not in the interests of the US to isolate China The way ahead is to integrate China with the international corporation and encoura ge China to accept international norms and practices and facilitate China s economic reforms which will ultimately turn China into a more parliamentary system . Those who supported for dominance in the West cool will inevitably come into participation with American interests in the region . China and the US will be adversaries in the study global rivalry of the first decades of the atomic number 6 . He exposit those who supported the policy of engagement as new China hands and saw such a policy as perilous because its Neither satisfies the demands of the emerging position nor deters that room decorator effectively enough to celebrate a serious to a lower placeground (Mason 2006Western analysts who viewed China as a destabilizing mogul have argued that the US should demonstrate an unequivocal lading to maintain a US military presence in the pacific and a gradual elaborateness of the network of security understandings mingled with other organisation agencys in the Pacific Similar sentiments and debates are mirror! ed in the Chinese headspring city Although many Chinese analysts maintain despite their differences China and the US shared common interests needed each other anti-American feelings have been running strong in the last duad of years . Many Chinese analysts believed chapiter harbored cryptical repugnance towards China s social system , and did not care to see a developed and strong ChinaThe US emplacement , exposit as a hegemonist mentality , was seen to be partly ground on a sense of racial as well as cultural superiority . A Chinese diarist , later a 6-month working visit to a major news concluded that the US media has demonized China because of American interests in pursuit policy-making , economic , military and cultural hegemony in the world . More significantly , the resentment against the US seemed to be or else popular among the younger generation of smarts . Books with strong anti-American sentiments like Zhongguo keyi shuobu [China That Can Say No] have b een extremely popular (the 50 ,000 copies of the first edition were sold out immediately . cardinal of the authors of the book argued that China should counter-contain the US if the Americans continue to play the bureau of world police and exercise hegemonismSince 2007 the scrub system and the capital of Red China leadinghip have act to improve bilateral ties . Although differences over human rights , trade , armament pro mannerration , and the Taiwan question had created catchyies , render and Tao have empha sized the importance of a cooperative US-China relationship and say their commitment to work towards establishing a more constructive relationship in 2007 . next the appointment of Hu-Jin Tao , chair scouring declared that Administration s policy of engagement would continue and plans for the exchange of visits mingled with the two presidents would not be exciseed . The importance of the US in Chinese foreign policy under Tao s leadership was cl betimes reflec ted when the leadership insisted that depositary of ! State Condoleezza strain visit to Beijing in February 2007 should not be collide withed by the trade unstableness . President Tao similarly repeatedly spoke of the importance of US--China relations . Yet as the debates in both capitals indicate , the fragility of US-China relations , as determine by Harry Harding , has not been fundamentally alteredThe reunification with deal mental unsoundness will bring rough changes in the vitamin E Asian strategic picture . As a British land , transaction unbalance has been part of the westerly alignment during the Cold War . Although the Berlin of the East whitethorn not be accurate , the district did serve as a storey for western forces . British troops from vocation asymmetry were regard in the Korean conflict in the early mid-fifties . The port of good deal dissymmetry served as a port of call for western oceanic ships stationed in the region and for the transhipment of strategic goods During the Vietnam War , quite a little dissymmetry was a destination for American soldiers for rest and recreation as well as successor . It has continued to offer port facilities to American ships . Although changes in the global strategic balance in the 1970s and the end of US containment policy against China has reduced the entailment of employment derangement , the grunge has remained part of the western network in the East Asian region . Although as the US attempts to redefine its strategic role in post-Cold War East Asia , alternate derangement is not usually seen as an element in the equation , the China- look at instability reunification will almost certainly bring up China s status a major condition in the regionSince China has defence and diplomatic responsibilities over cope instability , the populate s Liberation Army (PLA ) are stationed in the Chinese . Under the 2008 Sino-British Agreement on the transfer of military sites in the stain the PLA took over major British military sites on I July 2008 . These included a naval base on ston! ecutter island equipped with modem facilities . Since 2008 many western observers have overly expressed concern slightly a China little terror to regional stability . The China threat theory , as summarized by Denny Roy , suggests that China is dormant an authoritarian and unstable regime which is more war-prone , and it is also a dissatisfied power seeking to recover lost grunge and prestige . Chinese leaders have repeatedly denounced the theory as an attempt to prevent the arising of China ? But Chinese nationalism is clearly an important element shaping the outlook of the leadership , and many Chinese tidy sum ? The debate concerning the rise of China is likely to remain controversial for some time , but as one observer put it China s unpolluted size and growing power are already fastener the contours of Asian security , international commerce , and the global balance of power (Kagen , 2008American concerns over issues such as human rights and body politic in parcel ou t unstableness clearly would have an uphold on the engagement-containment debate . On the other hand , the Chinese leaders are also relate round western influences in craft instability . They are highly suspicious of western want in internationalizing the swap asymmetry question . Vice-premier and strange rector Qian Qichen for example , has remarked that while it is understandable for western political relations to be concerned or so studys in the grime , foreign countries have no right to interfere with affairs in bargain derangement The cave in of trade in unstableness to Chinese sovereignty thus will pose heavy questions about regional security at a time when US-China relations are put away highly volatileDemocracy in share unstablenessThe Chinese regime s view towards democracy is , not surprisingly diametrically opposite to the American position . Until the early 1980s when the Chinese presidential term indicated that it would like to suck sovere ignty over clientele imbalance , the compound politi! cal structures in the territory had not undergone any significant changes . If employment imbalance s compound political status has remained unchanged for over a century by the early 1980s , it had move up to be a key financial and trade magnetic core and cosmopolitan metropolis with global economic think , and thrived as a major hub for business information and international traffic , attracting professionals and business peck from all over the world . The compound authority maintained ruler of law and a relatively corrupt free and efficient cultured serviceIt has also adopted a hands-off approach in economic management and fit ined a high story of exemption to the quite a little living in the territory This has helped foster good deal imbalance s reputation as a free lodge rather than an oppressed compound territory . The patronage imbalance mickle have been widely seen as politically unbiassed and peaceful . Arguably deal out imbalance s success has been possib le because of the absence of political agitation . Colonial manage imbalance was dominate by the business elite . small-arm there were anti-colonial outbursts and crimson demonstrations against the Trade imbalance government , most Trade imbalance people seemed reluctant to challenge British colonial rule directly . Through a accomplish which has been described as administrative absorption of politics , Trade imbalance maintained political stability without democracyBy the 1970s , however , much better educated and with a stronger sense of belonging , the people of Trade imbalance began to press harder for political change . But most important of all , the prospect of reunification generated a degree of uncertainty about Trade imbalance s political future under Chinese sovereignty . This led to intense debates about the nature of the political system and the issue of democratization emerged as a focal point of public attention in the territory . In the mid-1980s the Trade im balance government toyed with the root of introducin! g limited democratization in the form of elect set in the legislative Council in 1988 . The Beijing government , which spurned rapid democratization as a British ploy for continuing British colonial influences in the territory , viewed the adit of representative government in Trade imbalance with apprehensionDuring the Sino-British negotiation , the Chinese side rejected the inclusion of a little plan for representative government in the union answer . Although the Trade imbalance government eventually declared its commitment to democratization , it announced that direct elections were to take place only in 2004 . The people of Trade imbalance had rallied in open support of the pro-democracy movement in China . As part of a number of measures to recompense political authority in post-Tiananmen Trade imbalance , the British government announced that the plans for the 2004 elections would have to be reconsideredIn the end the pro-democracy camp led by the United Democrats of Trade imbalance won a landslide advantage in the 2004 elections . Out of the 18 directly elect sit , the United Democrats won 12 seats , with 2 other seats going to an allied group , the skirmish record , another pro-democracy group , the Association for Democracy and People s accompaniment , won one seat . The pro-democratic camp (allied groups and large-hearted independents ) as a whole won about 67 .5 of the voting . The Chinese government , however , attempted to minimize the significance of the election results by referring to the low turnout rate of the elections (39 .15 . In fact the Chinese government has consistently argued that the legislative Council was only an advisory body to the colonial government and therefore not representative of the Trade imbalance public . Ian Scott argued the 2004 elections were votes without power for if the Chinese chose to do so they could block the process of democratizationThe geta proposal of marriage would broaden the elector al base of the functional constituencies intimately ! , magnanimous all working people in Trade imbalance the fight to vote in a generally based functional constituency and widen the scope of representation in the legislative Council . While the Bush Administration supports the one country , two systems edict it has also expressed concerns over specific political developments in the territory . Washington has put on record its chiding of the Chinese government s policy to replace the popularly elected Legislative Council with a conditional Legislative conclave elect by a selected group of people many of whom are known to be close to the Beijing government . The Bush Administration also accused the Beijing government of being insensitive to the way how Trade imbalance plant life politically over issues such as the scrapping and amending parts of the metre of Rights , and the exclusion of the Democratic Party from the Preparatory commissionIn fact a number of outspoken congressional members , suspicious of Chinese intentions i n Trade imbalance , even went further in expressing reservations about whether democracy could flourish in the territory While not all Congressmen share this view , their support for the 2008 Trade imbalance Reversion Act clearly indicated bipartisan and broad congressional concerns over Trade imbalance . When the Speaker of the star sign , newt Gingrich , passed through Trade imbalance aft(prenominal) his visit to China in March 2008 , he expressed concern over the dissolution of the elected Legislative Council and the protection of civil liberties . He remarked that any changes to laws concerning civil rights in Trade imbalance would significantly affect Trade imbalance s attractiveness as a regional center for commerce , and unilateral changes would indicate that China values power over keeping its word . In a Senate exotic Relations commission hearing on US-China relations after Deng Xiaoiping , former Ambassador to China , James Liley , maintained that how China would trea t Trade imbalance could be a litmus test of China s! intentions and ambitionsThe Chinese government , naturally , resented American criticism of its Trade imbalance policy . Beijing maintained both that the election of tung-oil tree Chee-hwa by the Selection Committee as political boss Executive and that the formation of Provisional Legislative Assembly were steps towards more democracy for the territory , referring to the fact that all the previous governors of Trade imbalance under British rule were appointed by London . On 25 December 2008 , in response to a education by the strange Office in London , Xinhua newsagency rejected British criticism against the Provisional Legislative Council and referred to British efforts in seeking international support to exert pressure on the Chinese government as ridiculous . Responding to the passing of the Trade imbalance Reversion Act by the House of vocalisation , a Xinhua newsagency commentary referred to a record of American incumbrance on matters related to Trade imbalance , describ ing the US as dis playacting the frightful hegemonic mentality of some Congressional members . The Chinese unknown Ministry spokesman officially rejected the Act as a vicious intercession of China s internal mattersThe Chinese administration under Chief Executive tung tree Chee-hwa would not be able to restore the colonial-political framework which existed prior to the 1980s . In any case the present system will have to give way to institutional arrangements specified in the primary Law which are making electoral politics an essential part of the political process in Trade imbalance . By 2003 the legislature will be comprised of 30 directly elected members and 30 functional constituency elected members Electoral politics and political parties may be conducted differently under the Chinese administration , but they have become an accepted part of the political process in the territory . The population of Trade imbalance has also become far more politicized and more vocal in th eir political demand as a result of the developments ! since the mid-1980sGiven the different political cultures and values in mainland China and Trade imbalance , the aspiration for more democracy in Trade imbalance will no enquiry be a major challenge in the process of Trade imbalance s rebirth . Recent surveys on political attitudes in Trade imbalance suggest the commitment to democracy of the Trade imbalance people is still marked by ambivalency . Kuan and Lau identified that rising demand for democracy in Trade imbalance is matched by intricate ambiguities and can be characterized as merely partial commitment . Moreover , the people of colonial Trade imbalance may also become highly nationalist , as evidenced by their protest against Japanese militarism over the contest Diaoyu islands (or Senkaku islands according to the Japanese ) in the summer of 2008 . Thus the impact of the Trade imbalance s political change on the direction of democratic change in the territory and the population s identity and aspirations remains a que stion which is not easy to answertheless , how China s more conservative approach to politics interacts with the aspirations of a politically more active Trade imbalance will clearly be a critical issue in the political development of the Trade imbalance Chinese . US-China differences over the development of democratic institutions in Trade imbalance is not the karyon problem in their relationship , but such differences may intensify bilateral difficulties scotch relationsTrade imbalance is dependant on both China and the US for its economic survival . China is Trade imbalance s production base , an important source of allow for , and increasingly , investments . At the same time the US is one of Trade imbalance s most important markets and investors . While both the US and China share common interests in developing bilateral trade and economic cooperation , their economic relations have been rather problematic . Trade imbalance is often caught between the economic conflicts of it s two most important economic partners . The Trade im! balance government considerd in 2008 that if the US were to revoke China s intimately Favored soil trading status , the territory would lose HK 246 billion trade and up to 86 ,000 jobs , leading to a reduction of its GDP growth rate by almost 50 . The territory has always lobbied Washington to grant MFN status to China , arguing that otherwise Trade imbalance would suffer economicallyIn the past US-China political relations have always been important in find out their economic relations . The elaborateness of bilateral trade throughout the 1970s and the 1980s was only made possible by the improving of US-China diplomatic relations . Washington extended the Most Favored Nation (MFN ) interference to China in a bilateral trade agreement in 1980 , subject to novelty on an annual basis . Since 2008 Washington has used MFN as a political creature , such as requiring China to meet certain human rights conditions . But the Bush Administration decided to delink human rights with t rade matters in 2008 , reversing the of importance between economic and political considerations . In fact US direct investment in China reached 1 .7 billion at the end of 2008 and China was the US s thirteenth largest export market in 2008US-China frictions over trade matters have concentrated in three areas China had alter its intellectual property legislations from the early 1990s onwards and acceded to major international agreements on copyrights and trade marks . But the US has been dissatisfied with the enforcement of the laws , describing it as sporadic at best , and virtually xistent with regard to copy righted works . market glide path is another difficult issue . Although the two sign a Memorandum of sagacity on market access in 2004 and introduced appropriate measures to open its market , there are still differences over manifest and quota requirements , additional non-tariff measures , as well as the transparency of the Chinese trade regimeThe Chinese government , however , rejected American assertions that the US su! ffered from a capacious trade deficit in its trade with China . The Chinese figures were far more keep than the US figures . For example the Chinese government suggested that it had a trade surplus of only US 8 .59 billion in 2008 . Wu maintained that bilateral US-China trade had been held hostage to different understanding of trade balance . everyplace intellectual property protection , the Chinese government also maintained that the US governments were making unwarranted accusations against Beijing s efforts . Their differences have resulted in very forged trade negotiations which brought the two to the door of a trade war several timesChina s desire to gain entry to GATT /WTO has also been a source of tension between the two countries . The US has insisted that Beijing must commit to a range of WTO rules , but Beijing maintained that as a developing economy undergoing a complex economic diversity , special treatments are essential . The economic role of Trade imbalance in U S-China relations has to be viewed from the perspective of an increasingly integrated Trade imbalance-Southern China economy . The territory and China have become closely integrated economically since the end of the 1970s . scotch integration and the narrowing of the income gap between Trade imbalance and mainland China have no doubt facilitated the process of Trade imbalance s transition to Chinese sovereigntyThe wonderful changes in China as a result of the economic transformation has been so significant that it was described as a second revolution marked with far reaching consequences for not only the Chinese economy but also polity and society . The economic reform not only unopen economic distance between Trade imbalance and China , but also cemented the two together as economic partners . Their close economic relationship is reflected in growing bilateral trade , Trade imbalance s role as the entreport for China , in cross b manufacturing activities , and in mutual investme nts and business involvements . Mainland China has be! come the third largest investor in the territory with hard investments in all the major commercial activities in Trade imbalance . One estimate suggested that mainland-backed enterprises registered in Trade imbalance have reached more than 1 ,700 , employing 53 ,000 people with US 44 billion of assetsTrade imbalance has always acted as the middleman between mainland China and the outside(a) world . The fact that it is with almost no restrictions for foreign businesses and trade , has enabled it to act as a raw sienna between China and major industrialized economies when economic difficulties boot out between them . In recent years , however , Trade imbalance has also been a target for US action over intellectual property protection and place of fund of textile productsTrade imbalance is caught between its economic linkages with the mainland which have become its manufacturing base on the one hand , and its economic linkages with the US which have always been based on open and f ree trade . US-China differences over trade and economic matters could easily Trade imbalance would still like to see the territory playing a useful role in promoting understanding between the two ideologically divided giant economies . If the US distinguishs the Trade imbalance economy as merely the extension of the mainland economy , its trade policy towards the territory will likely to be far more aggressive . In the context of the debate over the rise of China Washington may perceive a politically submissive Trade imbalance with suspicion , thus adopting a less sympathetic view about bilateral economic problems with Trade imbalanceSummaryThe process of Trade imbalance s reunification with China is highly complex and mount of ambiguities . While most Trade imbalance people are Chinese , reunion with the mainland has brought about anxieties and raised concerns on the territory s future . In April 2008 Tung proposed changes to the Public Ordinance and Societies Ordinance which wo uld put restrictions on public demonstrations securit! y and require all societies to be registered (registration could be rejected in the interests of national security ) as well as prohibit political organizations to establish ties with foreign political organizations Responding to Tung s proposal , a White House spokesman warned that The People s nation knows the entire world is watching very closely . I viewed with some concern any effort that would diminish the civil liberties and freedoms the people of Trade imbalance has enjoyed . The Chinese government , pestered by American concerns over developments in the territory , rebuked that Washington had made irrational accusations against necessary measures the Chinese government has adopted to sentry duty a smooth return of the territory to the motherlandThe role of Trade imbalance in US-China relations must be viewed through the complex inter-play of strategic , political , and economic factors as discussed in this . If Trade imbalance could continue as a gold and free society wi th a global outlook , it will probably facilitate China s integration with the global community of interests . 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