https://www.scmp.com/rss/507580/feed Simon Lacey is Senior Lecturer in International Trade at the University of Adelaide and was previously vice-president of trade facilitation and market access at Huawei Technologies, China en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Not a week goes by without a report about Western companies moving their operations out of China. Such reports mischaracterise the phenomenon as something new and unexpected, fuelled largely by the politics of great-power rivalry. In truth, and as usual, things are a little more complicated. Reconfiguring supply chains away from one market or another is part of a longer-term trend underpinned by textbook forces of supply and demand, and the need for companies to hedge risks. This makes for dull... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3106341/why-economic-decoupling-contain-or-punish-china-doomed-fail?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3106341/why-economic-decoupling-contain-or-punish-china-doomed-fail?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Oct 2020 01:15:07 +0000