Senator Says US Needs to De-risk, Not Decouple From China

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said during a May 30 panel that the United States is so interconnected with China that the two economies cannot decouple. Rather, Washington should de-risk from the foreign adversary that is competing in space, AI, and other strategic sectors in a daily race to promote its form of governance. “It’s not our job to divest or disassociate with China, but rather to de-risk our relationship with China,” he said at the Reagan National Economic Forum. “You don’t decouple, you can’t decouple. We’re interconnected. But you have to, number one, work toward a fair trade agreement.”...