Center for a New American Security (CNAS) publishes report, which proposes measures to combat the economic strengthening of China. The report states that, that in recent years China's economic growth and led to a strengthening of the country's military, which resulted in a "territorial expansion". As an example, given the disputed islands in the South China Sea, where Beijing equips military infrastructure.
The report, China often uses measures of economic impact to achieve its military and political objectives. So, tells how, how in 2010 year after the arrest of the Japanese Coast Guard Chinese fishing boat China stopped exports to Japan of rare earth metals, dealing a blow to Japanese industry.
from the report:
2012 th. Japan bought several islands from a private owner. Then the Chinese state media began to call for a boycott of Japanese goods.
In the same, 2012-m, year, According to the report there was an exacerbation of relations between China and the Philippines. Then China introduced strict norms of phytosanitary inspections of bananas and other s / x products, forced to cut the number of tourists from China to the Philippines.
from the report:
Came to power Rodrigo Duterte had to make a number of concessions in the offshore issues, to China lifted restrictions on imports of bananas and other agricultural products.
Further noted China's program of "One Belt, one way", which should cover about 70 countries of the world. According to American analysts, program volume is about 32% of world GDP.
from the report:
Implementation of this program, China will get even more economic levers of influence. They limited the number of tourists to South Korea after, as the THAAD system has been put there. This has caused damage around Seoul 0,5% VVP.
What does a US reporters to counter that, that the United States itself has long considered the norm, when it comes to Washington's actions against other countries?
Speakers:
In order to combat and mitigate the growing threat of China's economic coercion is necessary to create an interagency group, specializing in Chinese economic intelligence, to develop an operational analysis of economic coercion and planning scenario, including planning in the military sphere, significant for US interests.
Also spoke about the need to deepen cooperation with countries, which in economic terms, "depend heavily on China". A self US dependence on China by taking into account the volume of US debt, under the control of China, do not consider?
