ESTASHI LAURENT

The statement in 2013 by President Xi Jinping on the draft of the new land and silk routes is part of the broadermercantilist Chinese ‘Great Strategy' aimed at replacing the United States as a global hegemonic power. This vision of the newUS administration has dominated since November 2016, since the election of President Donald Trump. This article is the first toconsider the project of new Chinese silk roads, not only from an economic and commercial point of view, but also in terms ofgeopolitical interests and prospects. In other words, it is a question of comparing the constants of US geostrategic goals in theworld since the end of World War II and the works of American geopolitician Nicholas John Speakman with the new Chineseambitions underlying the projects developed within the framework of the silk roads. The work focuses on the position of the rulingUS political sphere in relation to China: the decisive influence of the US military complex, as well as economic advisers focusedon the problems of the trade imbalance between the United States and China. In this regard, the author hypothesizes thatAmerican financial circles, the Treasury and the central bank, large multinational companies and financial institutions no longerconsider the ‘systemic' relations that have gradually developed between the United States and China since the return of China tothe capitalist sphere in the turn of the 1980s. In conclusion of the article the measures taken by the US administration since March2018 are reflected, and the announcement of the introduction of tariffs focused exclusively on China. In other words, the ‘great'mercantilist Chinese strategy will now respond to the ‘counter' American strategy. Outside of the Silk Road, the United States reallymust restrain the rise of China in all these forms: industrial, technological, commercial, financial, diplomatic and military.