The maelstrom of events of the last weeks accelerates the reconfiguration of a new world order. For some years a multipolar world had been accentuating in which the United States, China, the European Union (EU) and Russia are the great actors of the world political board. Following the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump this new world order will be given faster than the world thinks, if not we are already witnessing it. Although the American president paused the imposition of tariffs to 185 countries for 90 days, except China, uncertainty still prevails within international markets.
The American president, as in his first management, has opted for political and commercial isolationism. The United States is no longer a reliable partner for the world. The country that raised multilateralism at the time as a basis for cooperation and mutual respect between nations now has as its premise the confrontational discourse in which it hopes to take advantage of rudimentary. All their partners were imposed on tariffs on the pretext that they have made fun of the United States. The current economic cooperation model is unfeasible for Trump, he argues that having commercial deficit with several countries is disadvantageous for the United States. It is a myopic vision of the United States president to venture the concept of deficit as something disadvantage.
Commercial cooperation between the United States with China has been beneficial for both, a Win-Win relationship. China is the third most important destination of US exports. According to data from the Commission of the United Nations Organization (UN) in 2024, the export of United States goods to China reached 143.55 billion USD. While exports and imports from China to the United States represented 14.7% and 6.3% respectively of their total exports and imports.
The current economic integration in the world makes a world inconceivable where economic autarchy deprives. China, unlike the United States, is committed to multilateralism and mutual respect between nations. Among all evils, this situation can be an opportunity for the Asian giant to build bridges with the EU. A few days ago Pedro Sánchez, president of the Spanish Government, made a state visit to China, being received by President Xi Jinping. In politics, the forms are background, Sánchez’s visit is currently a strategic moments for the interest of the EU, Spain could be the country that allows you to hold bridges to China with Brussels.
Such is the EU’s interest in having a new relationship with China in this new reconfiguration of the world order that negotiations between the EU trade commissioner, Maroš šefčovič and the Chinese trade minister, Wang Wentao, in order to analyze the possibility of establishing minimum prices for electric vehicles manufactured in the Asian giant and seeing the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of decreasing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or eliminating the possibility of reducing or removing applied in 2024.
More multilateralism and less isolationism, that is what China has done with the countries of Latin America. Despite the geographical proximity with the United States, the United States government agenda for Latin America has been, to some extent, of contempt, both speech and facts, to show this were the statements expressed by the president of the United States in recent days in which it indicated that the United States did not need Latin America, but Latin America if it needed the United States. Situation contrary to that of President XI, who sent a congratulation message to the members of the IX Summit of Community of Latin American and Caribbean States for the work carried out.
Technological development raised in the world in recent decades has not been given by isolationism, but through cooperation. A clear example of technological cooperation between US companies and China is Apple, the development it has had due to cooperation with the Asian giant. The tariff war is meaningless, Trump has already seen that the effects of it will bring increases in the prices of American products and that their citizens will have to pay more for them, so on April 12, knowing that most of the supply chains of the technological companies of the United States are in China, exempt tariffs at smartphones, computers and other electronic devices in high -tech products prices.
Commercial wars do not produce winners, the most affected are the peoples of the nations. The world requires more multilateralism, less isolationism.
