Please join the CSIS Korea Chair and the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department for the book launch of Victor Cha, Ellen Kim and Andy Lim's new book: China's Weaponization of Trade: Resistance Through Collective Resilience (Columbia University Press).
In recent years, China and the United States have each turned economic interdependence into an instrument of coercion, using their dominant positions in international trade to push states and firms to comply with their political goals. What is distinctive about this form of economic pressure, and how can other countries fight back?
This groundbreaking book explores the weaponization of economic interdependence and its implications for the international order through a wealth of new and original data on China’s economic statecraft. Cha, Kim, and Lim examine how and in what ways the United States and China have deployed economic coercion, focusing on China’s extensive use of this tactic over the past three decades. They analyze a vast data set that includes more than 600 cases of China’s economic bullying of states, companies, and individuals in North America, Asia, and Europe. They propose a multilateral strategy of “collective resilience” to counter intimidation, showing how targeted states can band together, leverage trading relationships, and threaten retaliation.
Synthesizing new insights from unique trade data with international security expertise, this timely book sheds new light on how China exercises economic power—and it provides a playbook to deter bullies and rebalance the global order.
CSIS' Will Todman will moderate a conversation between Dr. Victor Cha, author of the new book, Dr. Melanie Hart, former senior advisor for China in the Office of the Undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment at the U.S. Department of State, and Bethany Allen, author of the book Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World and Head of ASPI’s China Investigations and Analysis.
A limited number of copies of the book will be sold at the event, and Dr. Cha will sign them following the discussion.
This event is made possible by the support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.
