There’s a lot of talk about decoupling the Chinese and Western economies.
The most ambitious version of that vision, that of two separate spheres of economic influence, is nonsense. There is no way to split the global economy, nor the need: Much economic integration is good for both sides and bifurcation serves only the most desperate, vicious and shortsighted.
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