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cord-033146-2v1kuq50	Boylan, Brandon M.	US–China Relations: Nationalism, the Trade War, and COVID-19	2020-10-04		.txt	text/plain	7902	391	48	However, in an effort to thwart China's economic practices and boost the US economy, President Trump's administration levied tariffs on Chinese imports shortly after taking office, moving US foreign economic policy from liberalism, practiced for decades, to protectionism. In the USA, the Trump administration's plan to achieve energy autonomy, decrease reliance on foreign resources, and reinvigorate the manufacturing sector has led to protectionist policies, the othering of China, and hence the trade war. However, the Chinese state media employed a moderate approach in covering the trade conflict, criticizing the Trump administration for its protectionist policies instead of blaming the USA as a whole for economic aggression (Zeng and Sparks 2020) . Although the Trump administration initiated the trade war, China has retaliated with tit-for-tat measures and exerted a great deal of power to protect its economic and political interests and its burgeoning leadership role in global affairs.	./cache/cord-033146-2v1kuq50.txt	./txt/cord-033146-2v1kuq50.txt