China and countries that align more closely with it than with the US together account for around half of the world’s population. But the China bloc is far smaller economically than the US bloc and far more dependent on the rival bloc as a source both of imports and of export demand. Our decoupling map illustrates the economic challenge that division from the West would pose for China.
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