The U.S. has started to increase efforts to relieve tension with China stemming from their strategic competition. In recent months, U.S. senior officials have traveled to China to communicate with Chinese top leaders, including President Xi Jinping. As the competition continues, some say the U.S. strategy toward China can be called “decoupling.”
This paper will delve into decoupling: what decoupling really is, whether it is appropriate to use the term when describing U.S. strategy toward China in the supply chain competition, whether decoupling would take place in the U.S.-China rivalry, and what implications decoupling will have for Korea.
