Virtual Event | Containing Crisis: Strategic Concepts for Coercive Economic Statecraft on China

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As the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) continue to engage in geopolitical competition, both countries have included economic tools of statecraft as part of their broader foreign policy. However, Beijing’s continued and increasing use of both formal and informal coercive economic tools intended to pressure foreign governments, companies, and individuals to offer policy concessions to the PRC risks undermining the security and economic well-being of the United States and its allies and partners. The United States needs a strategic framework to better understand and respond to these challenges in order to promote geopolitical stability while defending U.S. economic and security interests.

On Friday, January 7, CNAS hosted a virtual discussion about these issues and the release of the new report, "Containing Crisis: Strategic Concepts for Coercive Economic Statecraft on China."