Firms Build Sanctions‑Evasion Playbooks

Chinese business commentators are openly advising firms to diversify trade partners and to develop legal and technical measures to evade or mitigate foreign sanctions and export controls. This is not just contingency planning by governments but a corporate strategy shift that institutionalizes responses to geopolitically driven market fragmentation. — If private firms systematically adopt sanctions‑evasion and diversification as standard operating procedure, global interdependence will hollow into segmented, politically‑managed trade networks with wide economic and security consequences.