{"id":3881,"date":"2017-12-08T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2023-08-06T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T05:37:23","slug":"free-trade-with-chinese-characteristics-let-the-buyer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/free-trade-with-chinese-characteristics-let-the-buyer-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Free trade with Chinese characteristics: Let the buyer beware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p>Canada will seek a free trade agreement with China \u2013 only the timing is uncertain. Integrating with the world\u2019s largest economy (in purchasing power parity terms) offers too much to ignore. In so doing, however, we should not ignore the attendant (and significant) security dimension.<\/p>\n<p>This does not arise from concerns over Canadian security, or even over China\u2019s. Rather, it arises from the insecurities of the Chinese Communist Party. The principal way the Party addresses these insecurities internationally is through carefully focused economic statecraft \u2013 and it is into this that Canada\u2019s future free trade agreement fits. After initially discussing the Party\u2019s insecurities, some implications for Canada will be drawn out, mainly using Australian examples from its current bout of rampant China fretting \u2013 much of it well founded.<\/p>\n<p>The Party runs China but is much more than a simple political party, being deeply embedded across Chinese society. It has been astonishingly successful in modernizing China in a remarkably short space of time, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and dramatically improving people\u2019s standard of living. Amongst many Chinese, these achievements have earned the party respect and at times admiration. Even so, as is normal for authoritarian regimes, the Party continuously fears for its own survival from internal forces. The 2015 China\u2019s Military Strategy is an interesting illustration of this paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>In the document, the Party sees domestic perils aplenty given the Taiwan, Tibet and \u201cEast Turkistan independence\u201d separatist forces; the last two having recently inflicted \u201cserious damage\u201d on China. Moreover, \u201canti-China forces have never given up their attempt to instigate a \u2018color revolution\u2019 in this country. Consequently, China faces more challenges [today then previously] in terms of national security and social stability.\u201d To some this may seem like an alternative universe \u2013 but not to the Party.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macdonaldlaurier.ca\/free-trade-chinese-characteristics-let-buyer-beware-peter-layton-inside-policy\/\">\u201cFree trade with Chinese characteristics: Let the buyer beware\u201d<\/a> article published for Inside Policy&#8217;s &#8220;Dragon at the door&#8221; series, written by Griffith Asia Institute Visiting Fellow, Dr Peter Layton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON | Canada will seek a free trade agreement with China \u2013 only the timing is uncertain. Integrating with the world\u2019s largest economy (in purchasing power parity terms) offers too much to ignore. In so doing, however, we should not ignore the attendant (and significant) security dimension. 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