Abstract
Drawing on secondary source material as well as interviews with government
officials and commercial actors from 12 countries and 16 cities that
were on the receiving end of purported Chinese sanctions, Chapter 6 establishes
the nature, scope, and duration of unilateral economic sanctions
employed by China between 2008 and 2018. It examines eight international
disputes that have frequently been cited by scholars, policymakers, and
journalists as examples of China’s increasing use of unilateral sanctions:
namely, alleged sanctions against France (2008); the US (2010); Japan (2010);
Norway (2010); the Philippines (2012); Vietnam (2014); Taiwan (2016); and
South Korea (2017). It shows that China’s use of economic sanctions was
far less widespread or far-reaching than commonly assumed by scholars
and policymakers.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press