America's Relationship With China

An interesting fact about China is that China overtook the U.S. as the world’s largest economy in the year of 2014. Which is probably the reason why China and the United States are not allies but they are not enemies either (Sengupta, “U.S. and China “). It is easier to say that the two countries are in a competing standpoint on which one is more powerful than the other. But China does have a strong relationship North Korea, but with North Korea being so isolated it is hard to give advice to them from China. China has been having political/international issues that either concerns itself or its allies. The actions that China chooses to do impacts major countries like the U.S. which also affects its ally North Korea which all gets traced back …show more content…
It is not odd to see that two of the most powerful countries in the world are not really at mutual standpoint because one of them wants to be the best country. At one point, America used to have the strongest economy, but now China has one of the fastest growing economies in the world now. That is the start off of why China and America have a competition type of relationship (Huang, “Yan Xuetong”). “There will not be a direct war between the two sides, because they are both armed with nuclear weapons. The problem now is that the two are not willing to admit that they are in competition. They are still pretending to be friends” (Huang, “Yan Xuetong”). The two countries do want control of power to see which one is stronger, but they do not want to take things too far. During the time that North Korea released their first testing ballistic missile into the air, the United States and China have been a little worrisome over North Korea (Sengupta, “U.S. and China “). North Korea has restrictions on the ability to be able to shoot nuclear testing. North Korea broke a restriction and it has caught the whole world eye. The United States and China came to an agreement to impose to impose tougher sanctions against North Korea (Sengupta, “U.S. and China “). Since the United States and China had agreed of measures increased the international pressure in North …show more content…
When China asked North Korea not to launch the ballistic missiles, they did not proceed to listen (Perlez, “China Struggles”). China wanted to stop this launch from happening because they knew that it was going to start up a controversy about North Korea. Since China is allies with North Korea, they want to still have a close bond with them so interaction will not be blocked off from them since North Korea got in trouble. This did end up happening because the United Nations came into the situations and suggested to put tighter sanctions on North Korea (Perlez, “China Struggles”). China is afraid to follow through these tougher sanctions regulations because they do not want their uncooperative ally into a worrisome enemy (Perlez, “China Struggles”). China is worried about that cause because hammering North Korea with heavy sanctions would turn it into a hostile country that could take action against Beijing. But China has already agreed with the United States to make tighter sanctions of North Korea (Sengupta, “U.S. and China “). “However, China’s support for additional sanctions may not translate into the political will necessary in Beijing to enforce restrictions” (Sengupta, “U.S. and China”). This quote shows that China has the courage to have a say on what goes on even if it is not necessary. This leads to the trust between the United Nations and