From Mao and Nixon to Xi and Trump: A history of China-US trade

从毛泽东与尼克松到习近平与特朗普:中美贸易史

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2026-09-21

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With Presidents Xi and Trump expected to meet in the United States this week, Will Bain looks back on the history of trade between the two great nations. It's always been fraught with controversy but there's also been a need or desire to get along. President Nixon was the first to visit China in 1972 and spoke with passion about the possibilities for the future between them. Trade then grew quickly but it became very one sided as China developed as an industrial nation. There have been several attempts to curb its dominance but cheaper production also meant cheaper goods for consumers. Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute joins Will to assess how they have attempted to strike the right balance.
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  • Today, as President Xi gets set this week to head to Washington DC for talks with President Trump,

  • we're going to chart the history of US-China economic relations from opium bans to joining the World Trade Organization.

  • Yes, we will chart the sometimes rocky journey between what are now the world's two largest economies

  • and how what's gone before perhaps informs What might go on this week?