Demystifying decoupling: what’s really at stake in the US-China relationship
Despite different challenges, global trade remains robust. Countries should see that there is more benefit in working together than in economic decoupling
Distinguished Fellow, Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) and Senior Adviser, Hakluyt. Advising institutions on relations between Europe, US and Asia. Author, 'The New Cold War: How the Contest Between the US and China Will Define Our Century' (Atlantic Books, 2023). Also Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute. Member, International Advisory Board, Brown Advisory Inc; Board of Overseers, Johns Hopkins Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute; member and Co-Chair (2020-22), World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics.
Director & Chief Executive, Chatham House (2007-2022). Executive Vice-President, CSIS, Washington DC (2001-2006) and Director, CSIS Europe Programme and Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership (2004-2006). Chair of the Experts Group for the 2014 NATO Summit.
Author of publications, including 'Global Britain in a Divided World' (2022) and 'America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership' (2010). Commentary and analysis have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, Washington Post, among others. Regular commentator on Bloomberg “Surveillance”, BBC News, and CNN International.
Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 2022. BA in Modern Languages, MPhil and DPhil in International Relations, New College, Oxford.
Despite different challenges, global trade remains robust. Countries should see that there is more benefit in working together than in economic decoupling
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Dr Robin Niblett looks at the changing face of US and British economic leadership.