Einar Tangen, Glenn Diesen: How China Won the Economic War

by Glenn Diesen [10-23-2025].

Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI. Tangen discusses how China made its supply chains immune to economic coercions and, at the same time, has powerful economic weapons at its own disposal. China's restrictions on rare earth minerals are a powerful instrument, yet the risk of weaponing trade is that other states will diversify away from China.