Counting the Cost

Counting the Cost


Has China's diplomacy turned into economic coercion? | Counting the Cost

October 17, 2020

There is one trade war that has dominated headlines for more than two years now.

US President Donald Trump's loud, brash and transactional battle with China has yielded success and self-harm in seemingly equal measures.

The US has been pushing to curtail China's economic rise - which earned Beijing some sympathy at first.

But as part of Beijing’s pushback, a number of nations have been on the receiving end of some thinly veiled warnings and, in some cases, economic punishment.

Plus: we look at how Beijing is forcing Tibetan farm labourers into re-education camps.

And, will a bailout for Belarus give Russia more of Minsk?

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