The United States and its allies are being outplayed by Beijing. In failing to arrest China’s economic warfare against them, they have de facto subsidized their own downfall. Beijing’s economic attacks have shifted the balance of military power away from the United States. China has secured control over critical supply chain choke points, eroded Western industrial capacity, pre-positioned attack assets in Western systems and erased the technology gap on which deterrence depends. The United States has decided to fight back. Allies that provide defence assets secured against Beijing’s economic warfare will be powerful players in the new world order. In this policy brief, the third as part of CIGI’s Canada at Economic War project, Raquel Garbers says Canada needs to make radical changes to defend itself. The wrong choices will see China aggress us, allies bypass us and the United States treat us as a dangerous liability to be forcefully managed.
