Year in a word: De-risking

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(verb) the act of diversifying supply chains to avoid relying too heavily on one geography

In 2023, the G7 nations decided to drop the dreaded word “decoupling,” when referring to their policy approach to China, and pick up another, more benign phrase: “de-risking”.

The term “de-risking” is defined on the US…