Abstract
The struggle of Huawei and China with the United States is greatly affected by the nature of the political economy of China’s domestic environment of state capitalism, by the deeply interdependent global system of political economy, and by the political economy of strategic interaction between China and the United States. This chapter examines each environment in terms of effects on Huawei and makes three arguments. First, Huawei succeeds due to the interaction of China’s system of state capitalism with the global system of deep interdependence. Second, the system of deep interdependence is threatened by, but also pushes back against, the U.S. strategy of economic coercion of China. Third, the global environment of deep interdependence will likely cause the United States to fail to change the Chinese system of state capitalism, Huawei will survive and prosper, and the United States will not improve its competitiveness through a strategy of economic coercion of China.
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Lairson, T.D. (2020). The International Political Economy of Huawei’s Global and Domestic Environment. In: Zhang, W., Alon, I., Lattemann, C. (eds) Huawei Goes Global. Palgrave Studies of Internationalization in Emerging Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47564-2_2
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