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Commentary: China is smarter about subsidies than everybody else

Beijing is stealing a march on its competitors by targeting strategic sectors, says Gillian Tett for the Financial Times.

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Beijing is stealing a march on its competitors by targeting strategic sectors, says Gillian Tett for the Financial Times.

Cyclists ride past high rise office buildings in the central business district, in Beijing, China, Saturday, Aug.

LONDON: What is driving the explosion of Chinese exports, which hit almost US$4 trillion last year? That question is creating deep angst among non-Chinese policymakers amid fears of a second “China shock”.

It is an issue I have been considering myself recently, having just crossed China in an electric vehicle Silk Road convoy, where I saw up close the startling quality of its EVs, green tech and artificial intelligence.

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B 10/100 risk

Grade B reflects 10/100 framing risk from decision pressure; each finding below is tied to stored wording.

Report confidence: 86%
Content format: opinion
Evidence findings: 2
Sentences checked: 49
Method: origin-framing-v2

Outlet context is separate unknown (0, 60% confidence). This profile does not change the article grade.

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Decision pressurebody

+5 · 82% confidence

So how should governments respond?

The wording urges a conclusion or action rather than only describing the reported facts. Its weight is reduced because this article is identified as opinion.

Decision pressurebody

+5 · 82% confidence

So what EU governments, and others, must do is not just contemplate tariffs, but the nature of their industrial policies too.

The wording urges a conclusion or action rather than only describing the reported facts. Its weight is reduced because this article is identified as opinion.

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Opinion format 1
Argumentative wording is expected in this format, so narrator-voice and decision-pressure cues receive reduced weight.
Attributed claims 3
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Beijing is stealing a march on its competitors by targeting strategic sectors, says Gillian Tett for the Financial Times.
Uncertainty qualifiers 1
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“If it doesn’t happen it could ironically be China, not the US, that destroys the rules-based trading system because . . . countries will be left with no option but to put tariffs on Chinese goods,” she told me in Saudi Arabia earlier this year.

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