US-China decoupling is more rhetoric than fact -- for now: Technology barriers are going up, but economic relationship is deep and complex
By Kevin Rudd
January 1, 2020
The casual, nonchalant and, for some at least, apparently satisfying deployment of the term "decoupling" to describe the current trajectory of the U.S.-China relationship reminds us of the classical wisdom that in foreign policy, words are bullets.
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Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister from 2007 to 2010, is president of the Asia Society Policy Institute. Fluent in Mandarin, he holds a degree in Chinese studies from Australian National University.
