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China dictates its terms
With the U.S. and others wary of its growing dominance, China wants to become less dependent on the world for its own needs, while making the world as dependent as possible on China.
It’s globalization with Communist characteristics: The Chinese government promotes the country’s openness to the world, even as it adopts increasingly aggressive and at times punitive policies that force countries to play by its rules.
Case study: Last spring, after Australia called for an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, China began quietly blocking one import after another from Australia. Still, Australia joined 14 Asian nations in a new regional free-trade deal brokered by China.
Related: A supercomputing center used by the Chinese government for surveillance in Xinjiang is powered by chips made by the American companies Intel and Nvidia. Both companies said that they were unaware of what they called misuse of their technology.
The New York Times
Me: Nearly everything is manufactured in the factories in China that we use. China has the world seed bank. We need China, more than China needs us.

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