Geopolitics
The Great Rewiring: How Western 'Friendshoring' Weaponizes Trade Against the Global South
A "rewiring of globalization," not deglobalization, is occurring as global trade and supply chains reconfigure around geopolitical tensions and national resilience, leading to a boom in AI-related and services trade. This shift exposes the hypocrisy of the Western-led international order, which now practices 'friendshoring' to consolidate its own power while callously abandoning the Global South, particularly low-income nations, to bear the brutal costs of its engineered fragmentation.
