• Sebin K Punnoose

The present century witnessed the unprecedented growth of China. The history of China and U.S relations is dynamic. From the policy of estrangement, it has developed to mutually beneficial relations. So the rise of China is going to have primarily and great impacts on the U.S China relations. Form the current U.S -China relations, we can observe a strange relation. At military and strategy levels both compete for dominance. At the economic front, both observe a kind of cooperation and reliance. Philip J.Funigiello in his book "American-Soviet Trade in the Cold War (1988)" notes that there was tight control of trade with the Soviet Union. Not only the U.S, but the entire west was prohibited as it assumed that better interactions with East Europe and the Soviet Union will result in the proliferation of communism to the west. It also feared that these engagements will also result in the development of military capability of the communist bloc (Wexler 1989). But as we analyze the China-US economic relations especially the trade, we can witness an increasing reliance on both parts which was a feature that was absent at the times of cold war in the U.S -Soviet Union relations. But at the military and strategic level both are engaged in unpredictable rival relations. The United States was concerned about the changes in China.

Strategic Hedging, Wedging , Thucydides Trap, China, United States, South China Sea, Taiwan, OBOR, South China Sea.

"STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF U.S CHINA RELATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.69-94, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808490.pdf

"STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF U.S CHINA RELATION", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp69-94, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808490.pdf