China Institute of America

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has published an analysis of the 'derisking race' between China and the United States, arguing that economic security policies in both capitals are accelerating the fragmentation of the global economy. The piece examines how export controls, supply-chain reshoring and industrial policy are replacing the logic of free trade with managed interdependence, and what this means for firms and governments caught between the two powers.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies has published an introduction to 'The Derisking Race', an examination of how China and the United States are reducing economic dependence on each other. The piece frames this mutual derisking as driving a broader fragmentation of the global economy into competing blocs, reshaping trade, investment and supply chains worldwide.