Understanding and Countering Beijing’s Strategy of Economic Decoupling on Chinese Terms

Although much of the focus has been on American efforts to partially decouple from China, the latter has been pursuing far more extensive economic decoupling from the American and allied economies on Chinese terms for more than one decade.
The Chinese strategy involves dominating whole segments of the Asian economy and decouple these segments of the entire Asian economy from the US. The most important segments are the high-tech and high-value sectors. These sectors are where competition is the most consequential.
At the same time, China is facing increasingly serious problems and obstacles regarding its decoupling strategy. Many of these arise out of structural weaknesses inherent in its political economy. This offers the US and its allies considerable leverage and powerful options to ensure decoupling from China is achieved on preferred terms.
The presentation will look at:
-What China is doing and why.
-China’s strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities.
-How the US and allies can craft a realistic approach which better play to its individual and collective strengths and advantages.