... the reconstruction of global value chains, which took years and even decades to build.
Whether or not the United States will eventually return to the table of real, rather than tactical, negotiations depends on the answers to these questions, as does China’s to slip between Scylla’s sanctions and Charybdis’ institutional restrictions on innovative development. However, it seems that no one has the answers right now. The White House, where Trump breaks the accepted patterns of economic strategy and global norms because, well, “why ...
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Anti-Chinese topics are becoming more pronounced at the level of election rhetoric. Judging by one of the recent documents prepared for the Republicans by the consulting company O’Donnell and Associates, the party’s key line may be harsh criticism of China, a call for sanctions, as well as criticism of the Democrats for an excessively mild approach to China. Nikki Haley, a member of the Republican Party, who until 2018 was the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, launched a campaign to collect signatures ...
... systemic officials and organisations that are sanctioned for political reasons. The problem could be ignored if it only applied to individual “dictatorial regimes”. However, today they are increasingly affecting major players such as Russia and China. Americans will inevitably have to cooperate with these states in countering crime, while at the same time considering them the targets of their sanctions and other repressive measures. Such a duality exists today. The big question is how long it will last. In a worst-case scenario, the Americans’ excessive use of sanctions and other measures for political purposes will make anarchy an attractive ...
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While it may be a little early to talk about the emergence of a bipolar era in the tech world, the question of what policy Russia should follow against the backdrop of the confrontation between the two undisputed tech leaders (the United States and China) is more pressing than ever.
Vassily Kashin
of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics shared his thoughts on the matter with us.
How does today’s ...
... for the next two years, and Washington said it would not impose new duties. Of course, it left in force the existing ones until the signing of the next package. However, the lull in the trade war will do little to reduce the risk of the US imposing sanctions against China. After all, the trade war and sanctions are two different things. While the former concern economics, the latter primarily concern politics. The growing political contradictions between the United States and China have not disappeared. This means ...
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... for sanctions against Apple are different from those of Huawei, but its case shows that not even US companies are immune to sanctions violations.
As for copyright and industrial espionage charges, this is a long story. Several companies had complaints ... ... threats in the field of telecoms. There are reasons for concerns, and not only in the United States. The situation is similar in China, Russia, the EU, India and many other countries. ICT has become a matter of tough competition and a factor of security. ...
... general deterioration of US-China relations and a number of other US attacks against Chinese firms. The Huawei saga is the best illustration of this point. At the same time, 2019 demonstrated that international businesses (including companies from the EU, China, Russia and other countries) were seeking to comply with the US sanctions regimes, despite the nature of their countries’ political relations with Washington. Businesses would like to distance themselves from politics and avoid the risk of being involved in US investigations, even though unilateral sanctions are ...
... with its annual military spending of $50–60 billion considered as America’s most dangerous rival in the 2020 budget? Why is China perceived as a strategic challenge, despite spending only a third what the United States does on its defence? And why is ... ... excessive fat, not at all related to national security strengthening. For example, lawmakers obliged the administration to impose sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 and Turkish Stream gas pipelines - apparently with the aim not to start the lengthy process ...
... well be waged between partners, an escalation of sanctions is a sign of more fundamental problems in relations, particularly if sanctions cease to be episodic and crystallize into a strategy.
Several factors can influence the conversion of the anti-China sanctions into a strategy. First, there is a history of restrictions against China. Beijing came under brutal sanctions in 1947 and had to live with them until the late 1960s, when they started being watered down. But after the Tiananmen Square events,...
