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what Biden wants to achieve by trading with allies rather than rivals

Written by Karen Jackson, Reader in Economics, University of Westminster

The tendency to move production and trade away from countries considered to be political rivals or national security risks and towards allies, so-called “friend-shoring”, is a hot topic among economists. The term popped up during the COVID pandemic, a time of significant disruption to supply chains, and gained further traction when...

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