First published: Council on Geostrategy, 21 October 2025
Industrial policy has a long and often contentious pedigree. After falling out of favour about five decades ago as neoliberal thinking came to the fore, it is back on the agenda but this time driven by richer or technologically advanced countries, motivated by a cocktail of concerns spanning national security, economic resilience, complex global supply chains, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and military and defence matters.
It is not necessary to dig deep to find a growing angst about, or admiration for, the world’s second largest and leading manufacturing and export economy, the People’s Republic of China. Read on……https://www.geostrategy.org.uk/app/uploads/2025/10/No.-2025.20-Chinese-industrial-policy-trade-and-the-global-order.pdf
