'Deeper coupling' could increase United States' long-term economic leverage over China, foreign policy expert says

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the American and Chinese economies are so deeply interconnected that they could be weaponized against each other in a market of 1.4 billion people. But there is still time to take back the United States' control over its economy while simultaneously working with China. – While many people advocate for reducing dependence on Chinese goods through "decoupling," "recoupling" in some areas can help the U.S. accumulate leverage to force China to change its behavior in the long term, explained Zack Cooper, senior fellow for foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute. -…