Global Trade Dominance, UE vs China (2000 vs 2024)

A major watershed event here is that China officially joined the WTO in 2001.

Arguably, one of the major factors the orange man is here today is because of China’s WTO accession.  It is estimate the US lost 6 Million jobs, about 1/4 of US manufacturing Jobs. This has been subsequently advanced by some [economists.](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-really-is-to-blame-for-millions-of-lost-us-manufacturing-jobs-new-study-finds-2018-05-14) Trump was elected in 2016, despite losing the popular vote, because of the Rust Belt states.

Nobody could guess🙄

I am glad that the EU is the largest trading partner for Kazakhstan than China.