Impact Of US-China Technationalism On ASEAN

Muhammad Faizal / Dymples Leong

7 November 2020

People wearing masks wait in line in front of Huawei’s flagship store for pre-sales of the newly launched Huawei Mate40 mobile phone series in Shanghai on 23 October, 2020. (AFP Photo)

Geostrategic tensions, global mistrust and the dark side of the digital world are significant threats that could fracture the world, according to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General during the UN General Assembly in September 2020. These threats stem from the strategic competition between the United States (US) and China, which risks fuelling a new Cold War that could ‘split the globe’. 

These threats also coalesce into Technationalism, which is a mercantilist conduct that both great powers embrace and could undermine the globalist ideals of cooperation towards a shared future for all countries. 

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