Asia-Mexico trade – the supply chain version of 3D chess
A complex knot of mutual and exclusive interests
Words are important. The names we give to things ascribe meaning to them, but they also provide insight into the thought processes, and eagle-eyed supply chain observers with a keen eye on geopolitical language may have detected a shift in the way leading politicians are talking about global trade. This has been illuminated by an edifying article from Transport Intelligence founder John Manners-Bell, who looks at how terms such as “de-coupling” and “de-globalisation” have begun to cause rifts between trading partners and were increasingly “regarded as being aggressively anti-Chinese in nature as they are understood to describe supply chain policies which are designed to isolate China from the rest of the world”. And thus we have “de-risking” now making its way into common parlance.
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