China should further integrate with the global market so that it could cause pain to any country that chooses to sanction the communist regime, a Chinese scholar argued during a recent interview with state-run media, saying that this was a lesson that Beijing should draw after seeing the effect of Western sanctions on Russia’s economy amid the Ukraine war.
The country “must stride toward greater opening-up” in global trade and investment to deter sanctions, as the West would dare not punish Beijing fearing that they would also suffer economic damage from such a move, said Zheng Yongnian, a director on global and contemporary China studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
