Rigidity & Coalition-building: China’s likely response to US pressure
ByAlice Ekman [Senior Asia Analyst, Paris]
►China’s long-term objective will remain to achieve technological self-reliance as much as possible, and for this it is now planning to accelerate the reduction of self-dependence on technological products and services from the US, but also from allies of the US, including South Korea.
►Maintaining the balancing act the government has promoted until now does not appear feasible in the context of intensified trade and tech wars and related pressures.
►China’s foreign policy is increasingly holistic, in a world it sees through a polarized lens.
