The actions of the Communist Party of China to ensure the security of the regime led to insecurity in other countries, which led them to take measures to restrict local companies.
The dynamics of the security dilemma better explain the subsequent reactions from many industrialized countries advanced to the development of the Chinese political economy in the party state.
These trends combined led to the obliteration of the discrimination between government and private capital in China and led to a violent reaction, including intense investment reviews, campaigns to exclude Chinese companies from the strategic sectors, and the establishment of new local and international institutions to counter the threats of the Chinese actors.
The Beijing model uniquely led to a large reorganization of the rules that govern capitalism, at the national and global levels.
The efforts to ensure national security in both Beijing and the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are increasingly concerned with corporate activities.
Legal frameworks have been reconfigured in many countries, including China, to include companies in intelligence and security work, and the necessities of national security lead the justifications for new barriers to internal and external investment in countries that have long converted to free -minded capital.
This trend, which has appeared since mid -2010, contradicts the expectations of international relations literature and “China’s rise” studies that highlight traditional security issues (for example, regional tensions) as a position to compete between countries, which view economic bonding as a force of cooperation.
National countries have regional, political and ideological conflicts with the government of Beijing themselves, yet legislators and organizers have taken punitive measures against Chinese companies.
Within just three years, the European Commission has moved from describing the economic activities of Chinese companies in advanced democracies as a “mutual benefit”, to looking at such participation as a great security responsibility.
The Communist Party’s procedures to ensure the security of the regime – the measures that respond to the local and external threats – led to the insecurity in other countries, which led them to adopt procedures to restrict local companies.
These reactions led to a security competition between Beijing and other countries.
The emergence of the security dilemma and the dynamics of security competition in economic relations is surprising because mutual economic dependence is usually expected to reduce the intensity of the conflict between countries.
Consequently, security competition with Beijing in the economic field provides an opportunity to expand the concepts of security dilemmas and competition, and in fact security, to include the dispute over companies and the consequences of interconnection, especially when it is not easy to extract clear differences between the military and civilian uses of technology, communications and data systems..
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