Toward Decline
There’s value in supply-chain knowledge. China wants to control it
ASPI The Strategist Institutional·2026-06-14China EconomyP1: Resource SovereigntyP3: Industrial BaseP5: Strategic Decoupling
Why it matters
China's strategic shift to dominating supply-chain intelligence—beyond physical assets—represents an asymmetric threat to Australia's resource sovereignty and industrial resilience. If China controls the information architecture of critical supply chains, Australia loses pricing power, export optionality, and decoupling capacity, amplifying vulnerability to economic coercion and disruption.
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