Global dispatch
Ten years ago, warnings around "Made in China 2025" were translated verbatim, published openly, and delivered to top leadership, yet they did not elicit an adequate response. Today, China's industrial policy is evolving from checklist-style intervention targeting specific industries into a systemic layout covering upstream inputs, industrial equipment, downstream services, and frontier technologies. More critically, this expansion is occurring within a tightening environment of slowing growth, weak domestic demand, and fiscal stress, and its response has been the recentralization of fiscal, credit, and capital markets. Its external result is the rapid expansion of the manufacturing trade surplus and the global competitive pressure widely called "China Shock 2.0." This article attempts to answer not "what happened," but why it is happening at this moment, how the mechanism has changed, and what it means for the world.
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