"classic example of China's 'raise, trap, kill' process", by which Beijing creates reliance before leaving farmers exposed" ['raise, trap, kill']
The named three-stage mechanism — create reliance, then withdraw — directly names the structural coercion dynamic the signal claims is being deployed as a repeatable economic weapon.
Reasoning from this article
The article presents the atemoya case not as isolated but as a recurrence of the 2021 pineapple ban, suggesting Beijing has institutionalized agricultural market access as a coercion toolkit. The pattern — large purchases to build dependency, then abrupt suspension citing phytosanitary pretexts, then partial resumption, then tariffs — is a generalizable playbook applicable to any smaller economy heavily reliant on a single dominant export market. Taiwan's government response (diversification, processing, market guidance) mirrors the defensive adaptation other states have adopted against similar dependency exploitation.