{"id":10352,"date":"2026-01-21T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinalaborwatch.org\/?p=10352"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:09:54","slug":"articles-published-in-2025-by-li-qiang-executive-director-of-china-labor-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinalaborwatch.org\/zh\/articles-published-in-2025-by-li-qiang-executive-director-of-china-labor-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles Published in 2025 by Li Qiang, Executive Director of China Labor Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past year, I have published 14 opinion articles in The Diplomat, The Hill, and South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across these pieces, I return to a central argument that is often avoided but increasingly difficult to ignore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s global competitive advantage is not primarily the result of efficiency, innovation, or industrial upgrading, but of a system that systematically suppresses labor rights, social costs, and accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Building on this premise, my writing examines how China\u2019s low-rights model underpins its manufacturing strength, how \u201cAmerica First\u201d policies unintentionally created strategic openings for Chinese industry, and how Beijing\u2019s currency strategy challenges the international position of the U.S. dollar. These are not isolated economic issues, but interlocking elements of a broader institutional logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>More critically, China has not confronted the Western alliance head-on. Instead, it has used trade and investment to systematically fragment what was already a loose but essential Western strategic alignment\u2014shifting competition away from rules, values, and institutions toward narrow, country-by-country economic calculations. The result has been a proliferation of tariffs, sanctions, and \u201cde-risking\u201d rhetoric, without a coherent or sustainable collective response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>At the same time, hesitation and retreat in U.S. and European industrial policy, trade negotiations, monetary strategy, and public narrative have reduced many policy tools to symbolic gestures, leaving the underlying structural problem largely untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>If institutional differences are not confronted directly\u2014if labor rights, rule enforcement, and public responsibility are not restored to the core of the international economic order\u2014Western economies will continue to lose ground in a competition they have not fully acknowledged, let alone prepared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2026\/01\/how-western-companies-helped-create-their-chinese-competitors-like-labubu\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2026\/01\/how-western-companies-helped-create-their-chinese-competitors-like-labubu\/\"><strong>How Western Companies Helped Create Their Chinese Competitors \u2013 Like Labubu (January 17, 2026)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labubu\u2019s success draws on capabilities derived from Western branding and advertising practices over the past two decades \u2013 combined with China\u2019s extremely low-cost labor model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2026\/01\/why-chinas-exploitative-labor-system-gives-it-a-strategic-edge\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsduxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeymAj1p8nL4u-oaDxX0tBdCMQWAEb8eCU95sqDtNULNLVFV5xtO4FsLNEgEU_aem_Ehlmd03Ef_rMtqp6WcqlFg%5C\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2026\/01\/why-chinas-exploitative-labor-system-gives-it-a-strategic-edge\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsduxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeymAj1p8nL4u-oaDxX0tBdCMQWAEb8eCU95sqDtNULNLVFV5xtO4FsLNEgEU_aem_Ehlmd03Ef_rMtqp6WcqlFg%5C\">Why China\u2019s Exploitative Labor System Gives It a Strategic Edge (January 8, 2026)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s decisive source of global competitive advantage lies in its weak labor protections. And it\u2019s driving a race to the bottom for labor rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/11\/chinas-low-rights-model-goes-global\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsdw1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEedATuLpLgRS1H9VaLuF4PVjIyBk-irrEDaOAWM_czYrulRfiNEczDnF7kMBA_aem_7ongLvx4s5PL0RzKm7k8fQ\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/11\/chinas-low-rights-model-goes-global\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsdw1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEedATuLpLgRS1H9VaLuF4PVjIyBk-irrEDaOAWM_czYrulRfiNEczDnF7kMBA_aem_7ongLvx4s5PL0RzKm7k8fQ\">China\u2019s Low Rights Model Goes Global (November 26, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China achieved manufacturing dominance thanks to its weaker protections for workers, communities, and the environment. Now it\u2019s exporting that model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/11\/if-workers-cant-speak-csr-is-just-pr\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/11\/if-workers-cant-speak-csr-is-just-pr\/\"><strong>If Workers Can\u2019t Speak, CSR is Just PR (November 21, 2025)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corporate social responsibility has failed because it has sidelined the people it claims to protect: the workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/07\/international-labor-standards-the-missing-link-in-china-us-trade-negotiations\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/07\/international-labor-standards-the-missing-link-in-china-us-trade-negotiations\/\"><strong>International Labor Standards: The Missing Link in China-US Trade Negotiations (July 25, 2025)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The low-cost advantage of labor exploitation remains China\u2019s unshakable core \u2013 and also underpins Beijing\u2019s ambitious vision of technological dominance and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/06\/before-the-us-realizes-the-cost-china-is-rapidly-gaining-soft-power-ground\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsd-JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEefSsHyK8BI0av8pkU5HE9frxuq-sKixXuoQWNTDLHqYLhGIiOrvHqiXj7Xdo_aem_XqRDftrIL48OZyLKWx_8bw\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/06\/before-the-us-realizes-the-cost-china-is-rapidly-gaining-soft-power-ground\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsd-JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEefSsHyK8BI0av8pkU5HE9frxuq-sKixXuoQWNTDLHqYLhGIiOrvHqiXj7Xdo_aem_XqRDftrIL48OZyLKWx_8bw\">Before the US Realizes the Cost, China Is Rapidly Gaining Soft Power Ground (June 25, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington realized the value of VOA Persian Service too late. Can it change course on other areas of soft power influence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/06\/europe-must-beware-of-potential-risks-in-the-china-us-strategic-competition\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseDBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEegfIGYqfFeUZPPw5E1Aqn-8yTXSdl1MbVvxskOmUN6PTl7poMyurJB4K2lp4_aem_kXP9SM8Tv1k6aVhPojP1lA\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/06\/europe-must-beware-of-potential-risks-in-the-china-us-strategic-competition\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseDBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEegfIGYqfFeUZPPw5E1Aqn-8yTXSdl1MbVvxskOmUN6PTl7poMyurJB4K2lp4_aem_kXP9SM8Tv1k6aVhPojP1lA\">Europe Must Beware of Potential Risks in the China-US Strategic Competition&nbsp;(June 6, 2025) <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EU must confront a hard truth: the evolving policies of both Washington and Beijing raise questions about their reliability as enduring strategic partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/05\/dont-be-fooled-the-china-us-trade-war-is-here-to-stay\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseFFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEesBMhdbrJbk4BXOlLffX6NtN1dj6ocw4aELeQcROkFxb-pmoryK41jeDecz0_aem_-AUUHqmMsJhNz3VI4veXkw\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/05\/dont-be-fooled-the-china-us-trade-war-is-here-to-stay\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseFFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEesBMhdbrJbk4BXOlLffX6NtN1dj6ocw4aELeQcROkFxb-pmoryK41jeDecz0_aem_-AUUHqmMsJhNz3VI4veXkw\">Don\u2019t Be Fooled: The China-US Trade War Is Here to Stay (May 13, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tariffs may be lower, but the structural tensions at the heart of the trade conflict remain unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3308590\/us-tariffs-wake-call-china-improve-labour-standards?module=perpetual_scroll_0&amp;pgtype=article&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPseHFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEezLPZhJ7RyMCljMk4SGIBVbb4ahM6y4VcwojjRijZ3xMwskX4D1DM_qIggr4_aem_0FC26_6pbomAbZYZ01qqBQ\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3308590\/us-tariffs-wake-call-china-improve-labour-standards?module=perpetual_scroll_0&amp;pgtype=article&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPseHFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEezLPZhJ7RyMCljMk4SGIBVbb4ahM6y4VcwojjRijZ3xMwskX4D1DM_qIggr4_aem_0FC26_6pbomAbZYZ01qqBQ\">US tariffs a wake-up call for China to improve labour standards (May 2, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If China\u2019s export competitiveness remains reliant on lowering its labour standards, the US and others will continue their trade-restrictive policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/04\/the-real-threat-behind-trumps-trade-war-chinas-currency-offensive\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseI5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe4k2RASVh220FThcil2nV-C9fJ-ymzP_YhexAgwWXgfAp8oxYjL7HBWfsZVw_aem__yn1Za9kLlAZknZXmXXhRw\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/04\/the-real-threat-behind-trumps-trade-war-chinas-currency-offensive\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseI5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe4k2RASVh220FThcil2nV-C9fJ-ymzP_YhexAgwWXgfAp8oxYjL7HBWfsZVw_aem__yn1Za9kLlAZknZXmXXhRw\">The Real Threat Behind Trump\u2019s Trade War: China\u2019s Currency Offensive (April 23, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has been steadily working to elevate the international profile of the RMB. Though progress has been gradual, it carries real risks to the U.S. dollar\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/04\/china-doesnt-fear-tariffs-it-fears-a-credible-us-industrial-strategy\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseLdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeGrGktog3Gau8UqFsnGoZiyhFMiz_fCcrQeiRi6inKHj6w_WCLOzZkijBzpA_aem_SUUuQeN-9AGB2eoNOEUiFA\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/04\/china-doesnt-fear-tariffs-it-fears-a-credible-us-industrial-strategy\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseLdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeGrGktog3Gau8UqFsnGoZiyhFMiz_fCcrQeiRi6inKHj6w_WCLOzZkijBzpA_aem_SUUuQeN-9AGB2eoNOEUiFA\">China Doesn\u2019t Fear Tariffs. It Fears a Credible US Industrial Strategy. (April 12, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tariffs alone cannot undo decades of offshoring. Without a complementary labor strategy and industrial policy in the United States, China\u2019s manufacturing advantage will remain intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5223769-tesla-sales-decline-china-rise\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseNZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe7OCS4jcbSjSWoeP9uBlJvgL5FHZM-DehRh3Lhu4k6yBkvGzCAOAy46ki0HU_aem_DTMO48X-rlvueihnthkQjQ\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/5223769-tesla-sales-decline-china-rise\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPseNZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe7OCS4jcbSjSWoeP9uBlJvgL5FHZM-DehRh3Lhu4k6yBkvGzCAOAy46ki0HU_aem_DTMO48X-rlvueihnthkQjQ\">How \u2018America First\u2019 created a strategic opening for Beijing (April 1, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cAmerica First\u201d doctrine has damaged the global appeal of U.S. brands and inadvertently helped China expand its influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/03\/the-disappearance-of-voice-of-america-is-a-failure-of-american-values\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsePlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3gVbi2_j8U_ZmoYiENaJE63dWQu_QDG2brToM7F4y18YF_7YAzBkqV-5wos_aem_oL2GX0bds_cnWvNHi4o0NA\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2025\/03\/the-disappearance-of-voice-of-america-is-a-failure-of-american-values\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsePlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe3gVbi2_j8U_ZmoYiENaJE63dWQu_QDG2brToM7F4y18YF_7YAzBkqV-5wos_aem_oL2GX0bds_cnWvNHi4o0NA\">The Disappearance of Voice of America Is a Failure of American Values (March 21, 2025)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For decades, VOA has not only brought accurate information to China, but has served as a rare conduit for Chinese activists to speak to the world.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u56fe\u7247\u7531 <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/photos\/hongkong-sea-landscape-city-9837787\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r-q<\/a> \u63d0\u4f9b\uff0c\u7f51\u7ad9\uff1a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past year, I have published 14 opinion articles in The Diplomat, The Hill, and South China Morning Post. 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