Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns stated that the United States would be foolish to decouple from the Chinese economy during a lecture in Oxfordshire, England.
“Severing ties with China would be unwise for the U.S. given the deep economic interdependence between the two countries, CIA Director William Burns warned in a lecture to Britain’s Ditchley Foundation in Oxfordshire.
According to Burns, China is the only country in the world ‘with both the intent to reshape the international order and increasingly the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do so”. -RT
As "decoupling" has emerged as a buzzword on the international stage, some U.S. politicians have made a concerted effort to use a benign term like "de-risking" as an alternative way to describe the United States strategy to contain China's economic and technological rise.
Western economies decoupling with the Chinese economy would have a noticeable more severe impact worldwide than decoupling with Russia has thus far because China’s economic footprint is much larger.
Whatever the case, if China attacks Taiwan, it looks as if it’s going to be on a much greater scale than the orchestrators of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict were prepared to believe.