The gas crisis in Europe triggered by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has highlighted Europe’s dependence on undemocratic and militarily expansive countries.
China accounts for an increasing part of Sweden’s imports of goods. According to Björn Cappelin, analyst at the China Center, better knowledge is needed about how this increase affects Sweden’s conditions to react in terms of trade policy if China chooses to invade the democratic neighboring country of Taiwan.
The Minister of Foreign Trade, Johan Forssell (M), believes that it is not up to the government to control the import and export of various types of goods, except in certain cases such as, for example, trade in war materiel.