International production networks (IPNs) in East Asia are facing two challenges, i.e., COVID-19 and the US-China … Factory Asia in the world. Nevertheless, the US-China confrontation and its consequences of weakening the rule-based trading … regime have enhanced uncertainties in the operations of IPNs. The decoupling pressure may come from either the US or China …

This paper examines China's evolving role in global production networks and its implications for assessing the … structural phenomenon driven by the pivotal role played by China within East Asia cantered production networks. The global … competitiveness of US MNEs depends on their ability to use China as the production base for supplying the rest of the world, and China …