China's Resource Risks

Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times The COVID-19 vaccination timeline is on everyone's mind as 2021 opens in the U.S. with a tumultuous start. Vaccination is not strictly a resource issue, but its global rollout speaks to broader trends in industrial competition between the U.S., the EU, Japan, and China, as well as U.S. efforts to decouple from Chinese production chains in key areas such as pharmaceuticals and semiconductors. While unlikely to immediately remove the trade