What Is Decoupling and Where Is Our World Headed?
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2025
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Gao, M.
O'Connor, J.
Xie, B.
Butcher, J.
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Gao, M.
O'Connor, J.
Xie, B.
Butcher, J.D.
O'Connor, J.
Xie, B.
Butcher, J.D.
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The Great Decoupling: A New Global Order/Disorder?, 2025 / Gao, M., O'Connor, J., Xie, B., Butcher, J.D. (ed./s), Ch.1, pp.1-13
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Mobo Gao, Baohui Xie, Justin O'Connor, Jack Butcher
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This introductory chapter examines ‘decoupling’ in the context of recent U.S. and allied efforts to reduce economic and technological reliance on China. Decoupling is a strategy to uphold U.S. hegemony by reconfiguring global trade to reduce economic and technological dependence on China amidst rising geopolitical tensions, limiting Chinese access to advanced sectors, and signalling a shift away from globalisation. Highlighting the main arguments presented in the book, this chapter envisions an alternative future addressing various topics, apart from trade, finance and geopolitics, from environmental challenges and philosophies of coexistence to the promotion of greater economic openness and engagement with the Global South, advocating for a new global order centred on peace, cooperation, and shared prosperity.
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025