There are some questions that people have long asked themselves at a deep psychological level. How secure do I feel? Who is threatening me? How could I be safer? These days, every trade-dependent economy in the world is searching within itself for answers.Three years after Covid-affected supply chains starting freezing up, and as US-China geoeconomic rivalry intensifies, “economic security” is a buzzphrase in the ministries of big trading powers such as Japan and the EU. Brussels started to look at it in earnest over the summer under the snappily alliterative rubric of “promoting, protecting, partnering” (respectively encouraging growth, defending against unfair trade and working with allies).
人們總是會在內心深處問自己一些問題：我覺得自己有多安全？誰在威脅我？我怎樣才能更安全？如今，世界上每一個依賴貿易的經濟體都在內部尋找答案。