States of Play by Sam Olsen

States of Play by Sam Olsen

Why China's power outages matter to the world

And answering what lies behind them

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Sam Olsen
Oct 12, 2021
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Dear fellow China watchers,

When I was growing up it was common to hear the UK’s economic ills being attributed to contagion from across the Pond: “When America sneezes, we catch a cold”. True, it was an easy way for British policy makers to escape the blame, but there was also a lot to it given the US’s relative economic dominance.

Today, when China snee…

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