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can someone please help me with an introduction paragraph and a summary of the whole article.

us. Trump Didn't Kill the Global Trade System. He Split It in Two. Allies find relations modestly tweaked despite the president's rhetoric, while relations with China are entering a deep freeze By Greg Ip Dec. 26, 2018 1136 am. ET When Donald Trump entered the White House on a platform of defiant nationalism nearly two years ago, many feared he would dismantle the global trading system the U.S. and its allies had built over the past 70 years. He hasn't. Instead, he is presiding over its realignment into two distinct systems. One, between the U.S. and its traditional, democratic trading partners, looks a lot like the system that has prevailed since the 1980s: free trade with a smattering of quotas and tariffs like those Ronald Reagan once deployed. The second reflects an emerging rivalry between the U.S. and China carrying echoes of the Cold War. On trade, investment and technology, the U.S. is moving to undo some of the integration that followed China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. There are two big questions hanging over this realignment. The first is deciding how far the U.S. is prepared to decouple from China. The U.S. has given China until March 1 to avoid higher tariffs by addressing complaints it discriminates against foreign companies and steals their technology. Mr. Trump is counting on a deal that avoids a trade war. But many in his administration and Congress don't trust China to make the necessary concessions and would likely advocate a sharper break. The second question is whether the U.s, can persuade allesto join a united front to contain China. Other countries don't relish the choice. Their economic ties to China are f than they ever were to the Soviet Union during the Cold War Nor are the ideological choices as clear cut. China isn't waging an ideological struggle against the West as the Soviet Union did, and Mr. Trump, while enacting policies reminiscent of President Reagan, lacks Mr. Reagan's commitment to alliances and free trade. Defense

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Protectionism policy advocated by Mr.Trump has resulted in tensions in the trade relations between US and China.The ongoing trade war between the two countries has created cracks in bilateral relations that US maintained with other countries. The situation is similar to that of the cold war period, with nations to choose between US and China as their trade partner. The global trade system and trade relations have been severely affected by the ongoing trade war. The US threat to pull out off NAFTA and imposing tariffs and quotas has created tensions among the nations that trades with US. With most countries having to choose between US and China, the situation has created tensions among the trade partners of both the nations. China leading in terms of exports with most of the countries and US threats to impose higher tariffs and quotas makes it difficult for the global trade system. The ongoing trade war can result in a split in the global trade system into two.