US-China disagreements are, of course, many and diverse. That said, one can argue that not all of them are of equal importance. Distinction between low politics and high politics is still very much relevant in this case. Many of the current, and most visible, differences between Washington and Beijing belong to the low politics dimension, involving trade/currency disputes, as well as human rights issues. However high-profile and contentious they might appear, those bilateral problems are not insurmountable. The US used to have serious economic quarrels with Western Europe and especially Japan, but eventually those disagreements were successfully worked out.
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