> Government subsidizes real estate investments in Western nations by Chinese investors
Source please. From what I read Wang Jianlin got into serious political trouble for taking foreign currency out of China to buy foreign real estate.
> Severely undercutting manufacturing prices for decades
Do you mind elaborating why this is "waging economic warfare"? I'm not an Economist but this sounds like China is merely trying to be competent?
> Devaluing the Yuan
This might be valid.
> opening trade agreements around the world to protect itself from US sanctions and tariffs
Again why is this "waging economic warfare"? Sounds like fair game to me.
> Purchasing billions annually in US treasury bonds
One of the reasons on China's purchase of US bonds was to get a relatively low-risk investment for all the USD China gets from trade surplus. From [0]: With trillions of U.S. dollars, China has found the U.S .Treasury securities to offer the safest investment destination for Chinese forex reserves.
One side note: worker protection and condition has seen great improvement since China joined WTO but it's still not on par with developed economies (obviously).
I wouldn't give any ground on devaluing the Yuan; that just means that the Chinese are more willing to trade real goods for paper. It is the government giving people's stuff away for free, but to foreigners.
The implication is that China will use that to build up internal expertise and atrophy foreign expertise; but that threat can be seen a generation away and given the subsidies the US pours into its own military it is hardly on China if it causes a problem.
Most of the West's economic problems are self inflicted and while the idea of China's erratic government eventually building the world's strongest military is terrifying they haven't done that yet. The West wants an unreasonably high standard of living without working for it and China is just nodding, smiling and getting things done.
> Government subsidizes real estate investments in Western nations by Chinese investors
Source please. From what I read Wang Jianlin got into serious political trouble for taking foreign currency out of China to buy foreign real estate.
> Severely undercutting manufacturing prices for decades
Do you mind elaborating why this is "waging economic warfare"? I'm not an Economist but this sounds like China is merely trying to be competent?
> Devaluing the Yuan
This might be valid.
> opening trade agreements around the world to protect itself from US sanctions and tariffs
Again why is this "waging economic warfare"? Sounds like fair game to me.
> Purchasing billions annually in US treasury bonds
One of the reasons on China's purchase of US bonds was to get a relatively low-risk investment for all the USD China gets from trade surplus. From [0]: With trillions of U.S. dollars, China has found the U.S .Treasury securities to offer the safest investment destination for Chinese forex reserves.
[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040115/reaso...
One side note: worker protection and condition has seen great improvement since China joined WTO but it's still not on par with developed economies (obviously).