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De-risking and decoupling - what do the terms really mean?

China In Context

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The Implications of Weaponizing Supply Chains for National Security

When Beijing disrupts trade, it doesn't target other countries supply chains. What it does is cuts off access to its own market. In 2010, Japan viewed a test that China was threatening to cut off its access to rare earth as an act of war. We need to have some sensitivity about an insecurity spiral developing," he says.

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