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Japan and the US are looking to reduce their overdependence on China for the rare earths critical to many existing and new technologies and defence equipment.
China’s increasingly confident challenge to America’s global political and economic hegemony has also spawned another layer of backlash from the West, best encapsulated by the spread of the bans on the use of Huawei’s 5G technology in western wireless networks.
The US, Australia and, most recently, the UK have all excluded Huawei from the rollouts of the new networks on security grounds. That entails significant cost – Huawei has both the industry-leading 5G technologies and is the low-cost provider by some margin. In the UK, Huawei kit within the existing 4G networks will also have to be removed, at great cost, by 2027.
The US crackdown on other Chinese tech companies and individuals on security grounds are part of a wider pushback by the West to China’s ambitions – encapsulated in its "Made in China 2025" policy – to dominate the technologies of the 21st century.
The increased tensions in the South China Sea, suspicion of the motivations behind the Belt and Road Initiative, the new security laws in Hong Kong and its treatment of the Uighurs are all part of a swirling mix of responses to China’s increasingly naked and aggressive ambitions.
Had Trump not fractured old Western alliances, assaulted the global institutions and norms that bound them and included US allies in his protectionist "trade wars on everyone" the Western response to what have been dubbed China’s “predatory geo-economics” might have been more cohesive and powerful.
Made in China' on the nose as push to tame Beijing gathers paceA media mouthpiece for China’s communist party has said Australia is “shooting itself in the foot” by its increasing wariness of firms reportedly connected to Beijing and is now nothing more than America’s “guard dog” in the Asia Pacific.
The comments came in a blistering article in theGlobal Times, a newspaper that is widely regarded as trumpeting Chinese government thinking.
It follows Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying on Friday that the Government was looking into the “risks” of popular viral video app TikTok which has scores of Australian users.
“If we consider there is a need to take further action than we are taking now (regarding TikTok), then I can tell you we won‘t be shy about it,” Mr Morrison told radio station 3AW.
Owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, TikTok has already been banned in India following clashes between India and China on the pair’s disputed Himalayan border. The Trump administration has said it could even ban TikTok.
... It would be “unwise” to follow the US in investigating TikTok, he added.
“Australia will be shooting itself in the foot in the long run if it pursues such a radical act against China. It could give some politicians short-term gains, and that seems enough for them,” the paper quoted Mr Yu as saying.
Australia was acting like the “’guard dog’ of the US in the Asia-Pacific region, and its political and military status is totally dependent on the US, which has been increasingly involved in domestic Australian politics in recent years”.
The Global Times said Chinese nationals living in Australia “expressed their disappointment and suspicion” over any investigation of the tech giant.
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