How the Indo-Pacific Strategy, Trade War Are Affecting China

Experts say strategy will create economic competition for China, while tariffs are reducing exports, GDP

Containers are transferred at a port in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China on July 6, 2018 AFP/Getty Images

With U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo finishing his first Southeast Asia trip after the announcement of the new $113 million initiative in the Indo-Pacific region, experts are reviewing how the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy and the ongoing trade war are affecting China.

Economic analyst Qin Peng said that an Indo-Pacific strategy based on economic cooperation is what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) really fears.