So basically this article says that the US is winning and China has not clue how to handle it
I'm really not sure how China could have handled it. The US has a much more powerful propaganda network, more powerful vassal states internationally, overall a much stronger starting position. I really feel that no matter how China managed its foreign policy, it would be in the relatively same position.
This article interviews different Chinese political scientists who all say China is not able to perform diplomatically but none detailed what they think China should do. I mean what can China do? Capitulate to the US? The US seeks thr collapse of China. Give the US an arm and they ask for the head. I dont think there is a compromise to be made. If there is one, it would be so skewed against china that the CPC would be overthrown.
The way I see it, China needs to beef up its news network CTGN to be much more like (dare I say it) fox news and other MSM to drive a narrative and get people watching it more. otherwise they can only keep powering forward and invest in research, improve domestic purchasing power and technology level. That's what this entire conflict is about, technology. Otherwise I haven't seen any other viable suggestions made by those interviewed in the article.
The only thing that the us seems to be winning is the propaganda war, which is to be expected given that america controls most western media
Did the us win the economic war? No, China economy still grows 7.9% , trade surplus still
rose to $31.78 billion in May, up from $28.11 billion in April
Even american propaganda war on Xinjiang is failing, only american vassals supports Uyghur genocide fake news, no muslim countries (the only countries that matter) support american accusation of Uyghur genocide, when you have even the taliban refused to talk about Uyghurs that shows how bad american propaganda failure outside of its vassal states
There is a member here who explained perfectly, the counter to american economic and tech war is The Dual Circulation to achieve the following :
1. Climb the value chain ladder, especially for domestic high-tech manufacturing and aim for the global market for such products e.g planes, chips, AI softwares, telco equip. Firms are pushed to venture into sectors without a regard as to whether the us place a sanction on them, aiming for 100% domestic replacement rate.
2. Establish her market as the most dominate consumer market in the world(This would require high domestic saving rate, something they have prepared for decades).