Factors Determining the Dynamics of Political and Economic Interaction Between China and the United States

The paper is devoted to the study of factors that determine the dynamics of the US-China political and economic relations at the present stage. The first chapter examines the main components of the superpower status, compares the military-technological potential, economic indicators, political influence and civilization missions of the United States and China. In the second chapter, the main conflict zones of the USA and China are analyzed, as well as the problems of the economic interaction of both countries, their struggle for spheres of influence and the problem of their nuclear potentials are considered, and the civilizational and ideological differences of the USA and China are highlighted. The third chapter traces the dynamics and peculiarities of relations in the “strategic triangle” of the RF-USA-PRC, and also considers the prospects of Russia's relations with the PRC and the USA in the conditions of the emerging bipolarity in the world (the USA is the current superpower, the PRC is potential one).