The Chinese-US trade relationship may have seemed like a marriage made in heaven – between practitioners of the mercantilist and liberal models, respectively – but in hindsight it is clear that it merely led to a blowup.
La relation commerciale Chine/Etats-Unis a pu donner l’image du mariage parfait – entre les disciples du mercantilisme et les modèles libéraux – mais il est évident a posteriori que ce n’était qu’un feu de paille.