Omnipresence Without Omnipotence: The US Campaign Against Huawei in the 5G Era

Corcoral, Mark

doi:10.1002/9781119885092.ch6

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“…This is in addition to more recent contributions that have employed the BoT theory to carry out a quantitative assessment of responses to the Huawei ban as indication of response to a threat (Christie et al 2023). Finally, scholars have explored the stances of other international actors and whether they perceive China as a threat in light of their strategic behavior (Shah 2023;Christie et al 2023;Saltzman 2023;Papageorgiou and Melo 2022;Can and Kaplan 2020), focusing on US allies in Asia, namely, Australia, Japan, and South Korea as they have navigated expectations of mutual support from Washington in the process of decoupling Chinese technology companies from global supply chains while also evaluating how the ET competition has affected alliance dynamics (Payne 2018;Corcoral 2021), the notion of extended deterrence and strategic stability (Mehta 2021). Relatedly, Friis and Lynsle (2021) have distinguished between an approach of "macrosecuritization" of China by the US and a securitization limited to specific domains like 5G technology (termed "niche securitization").…”

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China as a Threat and Balancing Behavior in the Realm of Emerging Technologies

Papageorgiou,

Can,

Vieira

2024

Chin. Polit. Sci. Rev.

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In the last years, China and the United States of America (US) have engaged in unprecedented competition in emerging technologies (ETs), in a context of China’s growing presence and shifting position in the international system. Drawing on data between 2017 and 2023 and strategic decisions, such as bans and export controls directed at China’s companies and the changing alignment posture of Western states, we employ the Balance of Threat (BoT) theory to examine China’s changing aggregate power, offensive capabilities and aggressive intentions, while also establishing the vanishing importance of the geographic dimension. We then turn to the behavior of the US and Western states by drawing on the BoT theory, which suggests balancing as a prime strategy to counter the threat and identify instances of the formation of a balancing coalition against China. We demonstrate how the notion of threat in ETs can be approached and conclude with a characterization of balancing in the domain of ETs that resonates with the notion of “gradual balancing”, in addition to outlining suggestions for future studies.

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