As competition between the world's superpowers intensifies, manufacturers across Southeast Asia are caught between Trump's tariffs and China dumping low cost goods into their markets.  Between 2023 and 2024, 250,000 Indonesian workers were laid off from textile companies struggling to compete with China.  Now many countries in the region have been hit by US tariffs of nearly 50%, threatening to deepen the crisis even further.

The newest instalment of this award-winning current affairs series examines the impact of this competition across Southeast Asia and looks at how nations such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are responding.  Indonesia has already suspended the operations of low-cost Chinese retailer Temu and Thailand has begun taxing Chinese imports.  But in the face of a Chinese export boom and Trump's 'trade war' - will this be enough?

Featuring exclusive access to high tech Chinese factories, and interviews with experts such as Former Indonesian trade minister, Mari Pangestu, and Victor Gao, Chairman of the China Energy Security Institute and Vice President of the Centre for China and Globalisation.