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The Winners From U.S.-China Decoupling
A full decoupling of the Chinese and Western economies could be a costly proposition. The International Monetary Fund estimates that it could shave around 7 percent off global GDP in the longer term, a loss equivalent to $7.4 trillion or about the size of …