Muan Lim

PhD candidate in International Relations, Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Asian Business and Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Analysis

How China’s chip strategy outsmarts Trump’s tariff trap

China’s semiconductor chip industry is decentralised, politically curated and immune to single points of failure

Politics & Society

Analysis

US tariffs have backfired, and China is winning in Southeast Asia

Punishing nations for cooperating with China just pushes them closer to America’s economic rival