FY2024 SSU-Working Paper “Economic Coercion or Economic Sanction? China’s Attitude Toward Economic Sanctions”
SSU published working paper as the outcome of MOFA Grant Research Project “Trends of major countries (U.S., China, and Europe) in the field of economic security and policies that Japan should adopt”, titled “Economic Coercion or Economic Sanction? China’s Attitude Toward Economic Sanctions” by Hotaka Machida (Panasonic Research Institute).
(Overview)
There are growing concerns about China’s economic coercions; yet, within China, the perception is that Western economic sanctions constitute the actual economic coercion, and debate has continued over whether China should develop its own system of economic sanctions as a countermeasure. In recent years, China has indeed been advancing such tools, including the establishment of an ‘Unreliable Entity List’ and the enactment of the Export Control Law and its related regulations. This study examines the development and implementation of China’s economic sanctions framework to illuminate its approach to economic sanctions and to identify necessary policy responses for Japan.
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