6 The United States and China continue to spar over sociocultural issues, such as human rights, and economic and financial issues, such as the value of the Chinese yuan against the U.S. dollar. U.S. diplomats assert that these differences continue to bolster China's favorable balance of trade and increase the U.S. trade deficit. The trade protectionist policy exhibited by the Chinese is similar to an economic policy known as that was followed during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This policy resulted in a flow of money to the country that sold the most globally. Multiple Choice trade embargoing countertrading profiteering mercantilism