Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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If you want to understand economic war, you need to begin by understanding the difference between economic statecraft and economic war.

Raquel Garbers, CIGI visiting executive from the Department of National Defence, outlines the clear distinction between the United States’ actions to reset its trade relationship with its allies and the economic warfare conducted by China while highlighting the dangers of conflating the two.

To learn more about CIGI’s Canada at Economic War project, visit cigionline.org/activities/canada-at-economic-war/.