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How’s the Decoupling From China Going?

Efforts by the United States, Europe, and Japan to break their dependence on Chinese trade seems to be progressing.
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How’s the Decoupling From China Going?
Workers make pods for e-cigarettes on the production line at Kanger Tech, one of China's leading manufacturers of vaping products, in Shenzhen, China, on Sept. 24, 2019. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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A recent raft of data shows reasonable success of efforts by the United States, the European Union, and Japan to diversify sourcing away from China. China’s trade with each of these important markets has diminished appreciably.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."
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