This report argues that creating a new principled economic security umbrella is necessary to counteract the growing extractive authoritarianism of China and correct the flawed economic security agenda of Washington.

To create this values-based framework, this report illustrates how the U.S. and Chinese economic competition prolongs conflict and ignores the needs of populations at the expense of global fragmentation. The solutions are both international and national in the form of suggesting a new set of principles, a Geneva-style convention to create a unified definition of economic statecraft, and a strategic investment fund for democratic resiliency.