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The Think Tank Post
Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Is economic decoupling from China achievable?

De-risking, friendshoring and decoupling describe different ambitions and get used interchangeably. Institutions disagree on which parts of the relationship can actually be unwound, and what it would cost to try.

26 institutions · 11 countries · 40 publications

Grouped by the country the institution sits in, because where it sits shapes what it concludes. Every title links to the institution's own page; nothing is reproduced here.

01

United States

14 institutions · 24 publications

Atlantic Council

Brookings Institution

02

United Kingdom

2 institutions · 4 publications
03

Belgium

2 institutions · 2 publications
04

France

1 institution · 2 publications
05

Germany

1 institution · 2 publications
06

Australia

1 institution · 1 publications

Lowy Institute

07

Canada

1 institution · 1 publications
08

Czech Republic

1 institution · 1 publications
09

India

1 institution · 1 publications
10

Nepal

1 institution · 1 publications
11

Russia

1 institution · 1 publications

Reading the markers

A Yes, No or Both ways appears only where the title itself states a position, in a named construction we can point at — “the case for”, “the myth of”, “the trade-offs of”. Hover it to see the exact phrase.

1 of 40 titles here say that much. The rest carry no marker, because we hold titles and links rather than the articles themselves, and reading a conclusion into a headline would put a position in an institution's mouth that it may never have taken.

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