How China Punishes Countries Without Firing a Shot

Описание: Most economic punishments have official names: sanctions, tariffs, embargoes.
What happened between China and South Korea in 2017 had none of them.

There was no formal announcement, no declared retaliation, and no visible military escalation. Yet within months, retail chains shut down, tourism collapsed, and entire entertainment markets froze. The damage was undeniable even if the method was hard to trace.

In this episode, Keyu Jin explains how China can use market access, consumer behavior, and economic dependence as tools of state power and why this kind of pressure operates outside traditional international rules.

This is not a story about tariffs or trade wars.
It’s about leverage and how it is quietly applied in the modern global economy.

⏱️ TIMELINE IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 — When the customer becomes the weapon
01:00 — What THAAD was and why it mattered
03:00 — How retail, tourism, and entertainment were targeted
06:00 — The mechanics of informal economic pressure
10:00 — Measuring the real economic damage
14:00 — Why international law failed to respond
18:00 — The broader global pattern of economic coercion
20:30 — What this reveals about power in the 21st century
21:40 — The lesson smaller countries can’t ignore

🔑 KEY INSIGHTS
• Why economic pressure doesn’t always look like sanctions
• How consumer choice can be quietly weaponized
• Why plausible deniability makes this strategy effective
• How asymmetry in trade relationships creates leverage
• Why globalization redistributed power instead of eliminating it

📚 FURTHER READING
• The New China Playbook — Keyu Jin
• Research on “weaponized interdependence” (Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman)
• WTO case studies on informal trade barriers
• IMF and BIS reports on trade concentration and dependency

🎓 ABOUT KEYU JIN
Keyu Jin is an economist at the London School of Economics. Born in Beijing, her work focuses on China’s economic transformation, globalization, financial systems, and the evolving balance of global power.

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