China and the US: Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Solidarity from Below

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China and the US

Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Solidarity from Below

Au Loong Yu

Kevin Lin

Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time

International

The intensifying rivalry between the US and China fills the daily news. The US remains the world’s predominant political and economic power, but it now views China’s growing economic influence as a potential geopolitical challenger, leading it adopt Barack Obama’s Pivot to Asia and Donald Trump’s trade war and threats of a new Cold War.