China–US Tensions: Is Globalisation Dead?. Issue 2 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Harris, Jerry
• Is Part Of: International critical thought. Volume 10:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 281
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Green New Deal -- hegemony -- militarised accumulation -- neo-liberalism -- transnational capitalist class; Critical thinking -- Periodicals; Current events -- Periodicals; 153.4205
• DOI: 10.1080/21598282.2020.1775026
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2159-8282

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Although the trade war between China and the US has aspects of a national rivalry, at a deeper level it is a struggle over different forms of globalisation. The Chinese and US economies are deeply integrated, but the economic crisis of 2008 caused a delegitimisation of neoliberalism. The transnational capitalist class is seeking to build new hegemonic projects to stabilise global capitalism. On one side is militarised and repressive accumulation surrounded by a nationalist narrative as typified by the Trump administration; and on the other is green capitalism. An economic and political project in which China plays a key role.