“We will take steps, individually and collectively, to invest in our own economic vibrancy. We will reduce excessive dependencies in our critical supply chains,” the G7 said. ‘Less scary’ But what does de-risking really mean? “First and foremost, it’s just semantics, right? Decoupling itself is a scary term, and a particularly scary term for the business community, which has a clear understanding of how difficult and how catastrophic decoupling would actually be,” says Gordon Flake, chief executive of the Perth USAsia Centre at the University of Western Australia. “De-risking is a more palatable term, ill-defined, not so scary,” he told...