'Decoupling' from Beijing should end up in dustbin of history

At Summer Davos on Tuesday Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned against overstretching the concept of the so-called "de-risking" or turning it into a political or ideological tool.

One of the most tangible outcomes of Premier Li's visit to Germany and France last week is that the two countries appear to have left the "Trumpian trade-war threat" of "decoupling" from China on the ash heap of history.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne reassured Li in Berlin and Paris respectively that they reject the notion of decoupling their economies from China's.