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Main Author: Yu, Jie
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Language:English
Published: Zenodo 2025
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.31175/eh4s.5ce0
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contents <h1>Key Takeaways</h1> <ul> <li>China’s responses to the second Trump administration consist of two long-term strategies and a set of short-term negotiation tactics. Long-term, Beijing has pivoted its economy, driven by domestic innovation, and is expanding its capabilities in strengthening its critical mineral supply chain. It has diversified its trade and diplomatic engagements with non-Western countries.<br><br></li> <li>China has adopted stalling trade negotiation tactics with Washington as Beijing aims to bide the time to focus on economic rebalancing and breaking technological chokepoints. Sticking points in the ongoing trade talks have prompted both a new line-up in China’s negotiation team and a shift in the institutional balance of power in Beijing.<br><br></li> <li>China has also taken a ‘carrot and stick’ approach to communicate with its other major trading partners, including the EU, other traditional allies of the US and most parts of the Global South. It pays close attention to trade talks between other third countries and the US as to whether they have agreed a ‘China clause’ that would harm Beijing’s interests.</li> </ul> <p> </p>
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spellingShingle Standing firm and reducing reliance on the US: how China is handling Trump's trade war
Yu, Jie
China-US trade war
Export Controls
Tariff
Rare Earths
Chinese Elite Politics
<h1>Key Takeaways</h1> <ul> <li>China’s responses to the second Trump administration consist of two long-term strategies and a set of short-term negotiation tactics. Long-term, Beijing has pivoted its economy, driven by domestic innovation, and is expanding its capabilities in strengthening its critical mineral supply chain. It has diversified its trade and diplomatic engagements with non-Western countries.<br><br></li> <li>China has adopted stalling trade negotiation tactics with Washington as Beijing aims to bide the time to focus on economic rebalancing and breaking technological chokepoints. Sticking points in the ongoing trade talks have prompted both a new line-up in China’s negotiation team and a shift in the institutional balance of power in Beijing.<br><br></li> <li>China has also taken a ‘carrot and stick’ approach to communicate with its other major trading partners, including the EU, other traditional allies of the US and most parts of the Global South. It pays close attention to trade talks between other third countries and the US as to whether they have agreed a ‘China clause’ that would harm Beijing’s interests.</li> </ul> <p> </p>
title Standing firm and reducing reliance on the US: how China is handling Trump's trade war
topic China-US trade war
Export Controls
Tariff
Rare Earths
Chinese Elite Politics
url https://doi.org/10.31175/eh4s.5ce0