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ZitatFor anyone who needs evidence of how much restraint Beijing exercised amid wave after wave of trade escalations in the Trump 1 and Biden years, this is Exhibit A.
Even the U.S. government's top China analyst was surprised by the Chinese restraint.
Literally.
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ZitatJon Czin: The way you contextualize it is right. In the first Trump administration, during the first trade war, it was almost palpable that Xi and his lieutenants were groping around for some adequate countermeasure to the initial tranche of tariffs. My operating model for how they were behaving at the time was they wanted countermeasures, and the paradigm was “no escalation, no concessions.” They wanted to do enough to show that they were pushing back, but at the same time, try to make as few meaningful concessions as possible.
From my view on the inside during the Biden administration, I was really struck by how little pushback we got for a lot of our competitive actions. I was involved in planning for President Biden’s first in-person meeting with Xi Jinping in November 2022. Just a month before that was when we dropped the first big export controls. The reaction was very muted – they kvetched, but not that much. They didn’t really do anything for a long time. Even with the subsequent efforts to tighten those export controls and plug some of the gaps, you didn’t really see much movement from the Chinese side or much in the way of a response, which was really striking. Maybe not until summer of 2023, but even then they were relatively restrained.
Ich würde jetzt nicht per se so viel auf die Betrachtung drumherum geben, das sind die Themen:
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- How Xi’s mafioso-style “decapitation strategy” has kept the PLA in line and why he’s purged more generals than Mao.
- Cognitive decline and how end-of-life thinking might be shaping Xi’s succession plans and Taiwan strategy.
- Tariffs, rare earths, and China’s appetite for pain vs. America’s.
- Beijing’s parochialism and its limits in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
- What intelligence work on China actually looks like and whether or not Xi’s era is duller than previous generations.
Aber das oben Zitierte ist eine plausible Innensicht. Demnach könnte sich leicht die Vorstellung verfestigt haben, die beißen nicht, selbst wenn man stichelt.