Published: 14 Oct 2025
Authors: Maria Monica Wihardja|Dennis Trinidad
The economic competition between China and the US portends both opportunities and challenges for Southeast Asia.
The use of economic tools to pursue national interests is not new. In the 21st century, new waves of such tools, from unlawful economic coercion to legal but harmful trade remedies, have played a key role in the strategic competition between China and the US. Unlike the rivalry between the US and the former Soviet Union, Sino-US strategic competition is distinct in that the US and China are economically highly interdependent. This makes economic tools to weaponise economic interdependence essential and convenient to use. In some cases, legal trade remedies to address unfair trade practices and national security issues have also become valid tools of economic coercion.
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