Disengagement will impede growth, increase business costs, and raise prices for everyone in the West. But the economy that loses the most may be China’s.
Xi Jinping visits Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. in Wuhan, Hubei. 26th of April 2018. Credit: Xinhua/Ju Peng via Alamy
For more than three decades, the global economy was defined by unbridled integration and unprecedented interdependence. Neither political spats nor localized wars could slow the globalization train. Markets were markets, business was business, and multinational firms became more multinational. Not anymore.
In this new era of strategic competition between China and the West, disengagement is the order of the day. While this trend will impede economic growth, increase business costs (via supply
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