- It’s time for some of us to start thinking about a Post-China world. If your career or sales or profits were propelled by China’s economic leaps since 2000 (and there are a lot of you) , then this could be a tough adjustment.
The US government is engineering a "hard de-couple" - where is becomes economically infeasible if not outright illegal for you to conduct certain kinds of business with Chinese entities. If China gets admitted to the CPTPP, it sends a disastrous message to US allies about the future of global trade. China is using trade agreements as a force multiplier in its effort to solidify its sphere of influence. (Commercial only. Culturally, it is making little headway).The US and it’s Western coalition are rapidly losing influence in SE Asia.