Introduction
Xi Jinping’s hunger is primarily motivated by his desire to increase the country’s influence, power, and presence in the global context. Such could be achieved through his reforms to fully centralize control and make China a great nation (Gueorguiev, 2018). He seeks to facilitate China’s dream of complete independence from other external countries, such as the United States (Dimitrov & Zhang, 2021). Jinping aims to make China a superpower in politics, military, technology, and trade.
Discussion
He is essentially trying to accomplish China’s dream of being a superpower, above the United States, Europe, and Russia, among other countries. Besides, he looks to fulfill China’s pursuit of national rejuvenation and international influence (Düben, 2018). Chinese people dream of a vast cultural, political, military, technological, and social impact compared to other countries. Jinping hopes to propel China to a new era country with a broad socialist framework encompassed with Chinese characteristics.
However, his ambitions of making China a super country in the new era negatively impacted the United States’ foreign policy. Such is because the new legal frameworks and technologies implicated by the Chinese President have led to digital authoritarianism between the two countries, leading to differences in ideologies. As a result, the two countries experience intensified competition among their systems, increasing friction and making it hard for them to relate positively, as they are both in the quest for ultimate power.
As an advisor, I would encourage the United States to integrate peaceful co-existence, win-win cooperation, and cooperation while dealing with a country like China. Such is because both countries are in quest for ultimate power, and intensified competition is expected between the two countries (Medeiros, 2019). The only way to handle such intensified competition would be to ensure peaceful co-existence, ensure that trade policies are favorable, ensure easy transfer of products, eliminate trade barriers, and improve business relations.
Conclusion
Given the opportunity, I would bring back the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to strengthen the United States economy, boost exports and growth and create more employment opportunities. Also, the TPP is vital as it helps improve inter-trade relations with other countries such as China, eliminate trade barriers, and facilitate easy mitigation of intensified competition among other countries (Mukhopadhyay & Thomassin, 2018). Moreover, the TPP would help eliminate tariffs among countries and help the U.S. intervene in trade disputes among oil-rich nations.
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