2026年3月18日
下午12:30 - 下午 1:30 EDT
In recent years, China and the United States have each turned economic interdependence into an instrument of coercion, using their dominant positions in international trade to push states and firms to comply with their political goals. What is distinctive about this form of economic pressure, and how can other countries fight back?
In Victor Cha's new book, China's Weaponization of Trade (2026), he and his co-authors explore how China exercises economic power through a wealth of new and original data on China’s economic statecraft over the past three decades. They collected more than 600 cases of China’s economic bullying of states, companies, and individuals in Asia, Europe, and North America. To deter China's economic bullying, they propose a multilateral strategy of “collective resilience” to counter intimidation, showing how targeted states can band together, leverage trading relationships, and threaten retaliation.
This is event is co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues and Asian Studies Program in the School of Foreign Service.
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Victor Cha is distinguished university professor and professor of government at Georgetown University. Cha also serves as president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 2021 to 2025, he was appointed by the Biden administration to serve on the Defense Policy Board in an advisory role to the secretary of defense. He served from 2004 to 2007 as director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council, where he was primarily responsible for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand, and Pacific Island nation affairs. Cha was also the deputy head of delegation for the United States at the six-party talks in Beijing.