The unified response of Western democracies to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and their swift unleashing of a panoply of tough economic sanctions, offer lessons for any governments that seek to grapple with Beijing’s abusive trade and economic practices, economic coercion, and potential aggression toward Taiwan. That’s according to Robert D. Atkinson, President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. “Perhaps the most important question related to these sanctions besides whether they will deter Putin, is whether this kind of economic cooperation to punish global norm transgressors can and will continue, and will it be applied to China?” Atkinson wrote in the March 9 column in the Korea Times. In Atkinson’s view, the breadth of the sanctions brought to bear on Russia offers a useful precedent when assessing other economic and geostrategic problems. He notes that besides the far-ranging sanctions slapped on Russia’s banking system, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of …