03 Nov 2020

Counting the cost of decoupling

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Breakups are hard…and expensive.

This was the message that Huang Qifan, the outspoken former mayor of Chongqing, delivered on Saturday in an address to business leaders in Shanghai.

In his speech, Huang highlighted the dangers of decoupling – in dollars and cents (Caijing):

“More...