If any of their economy are reliant on high-tech industry in the future, they'll likely get overshadowed by China, nothing will stop China's quest to move up the value chain. I'm not afraid of their efforts to isolate China, because it going to be extremely difficult and near impossible to pull off. What I'm annoyed of is they are trying to pull a regional version of WTO, trying to restrict China's growth and freedom to pursue its own economic model, by imposing "standards" and "rules".@Coalescence bro his economy will be the first victim if China create it's own Semiconductor eco system, how many big countries did the collective west sanction, from those China had a ready market to focus on plus us in the Global South, so who isolate who...lol
All China can do is try to convince them to make exemptions, create alternative economic organizations to get them to join, individually make trade agreements to bypass whatever "standard" requirements they make and many other strategies which all annoyingly need administrative resources and time to execute. It would be better to focus on the other regions for now, to gain leverages and spend less for the benefit, as they would likely do a hard negotiation tactics by using the agreement with US as leverage. But that's not to say they should give up or reduce their attention on the region.