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Latest news, analysis and opinion on the potential economic decoupling of China and the United States.

Economic decoupling between western and eastern economies could cost the global economy $5.7 trillion. Developing economies would be the hardest hit by fragmentation, with potential GDP losses of up ...

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Europe needs a "more mature" attitude to trade and must avoid a global decoupling while it secures its economy and addresses Chinese state subsidies, the EU's economics chief Paolo Gentiloni told CNBC ...

Decoupling analysis examines the extent to which economic expansion can be sustained without proportional increases in carbon emissions. At its core, the approach distinguishes between relative ...

The transition to a circular economy within the European Union has emerged as a structural transformation aimed at decoupling ...

Balancing environmental conservation with economic progress is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. This is particularly difficult for many developing countries, which urgently need to ...

For nearly 200 years, two transformative global forces have grown in tandem: economic activity and carbon emissions. The two have long been paired together, or, in economist-speak, “coupled.” When the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a bilateral meeting at the Gimhae International Airport terminal in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025,. Credit: Official White ...

This year will go down as the century’s worst if measured by the disruption, misery and strife that has marked the Year of the Rat. There seems no end in sight to the cascading series of crises ...

The fragmentation is already reducing gross domestic product (GDP) growth by between USD 213 billion and USD 307 billion and raising inflation by 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points (pp) Highlighting that ...