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The Lose-Lose Consequence: Assessing US-China Trade Decoupling through the Lens of Global Value Chains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2021

Yimei Hu*
Affiliation:
Aalborg University Business School, Aalborg University, Denmark
Kailan Tian
Affiliation:
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tian Wu
Affiliation:
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Cuihong Yang
Affiliation:
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
*
Corresponding author: Yimei Hu ([email protected])

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Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Association for Chinese Management Research

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Footnotes

accepted by Deputy Editor Peter Ping Li

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