China Has the Capacity. America Has the Demand. Neither Will Make the Deal | Digging into China

The dominant narrative of U.S.-China “decoupling” is misleading. What is occurring is a reorganization of global manufacturing: Chinese companies are relocating production to places like Vietnam, Thailand, and Mexico to circumvent tariffs and restrictions, while still relying on Chinese capital, engineers, machinery, and supply chains. The result is increasingly “Made by Chinese companies, somewhere else.”

In the short term, this strengthens Chinese firms by making them more international and resilient. In the long term, it risks exporting China’s hard-won industrial ecosystem and knowledge, potentially creating future competitors. America can impose restrictions quickly but cannot rapidly rebuild the dense manufacturing networks China possesses. The two economies have complementary problems—China’s excess capacity versus America’s demand and capital shortages—yet geopolitics blocks the rational bargain. The outcome is a more fragmented, redundant, and costly global system in which neither side fully wins, and both adapt at significant expense.

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