From the article, wrt how the economist claims that decoupling is phoney because the underlying export by china in the process remains the same:

> Startlingly, however, The Economist provides no actual data to support this claim.

Ha! This was a reason I unsubscribed from the economist. A lot of times it makes broad claims and then leaves out the details to support said claim. Almost like it expects the reader to treat the economist like a first hand source and therefore no citation needed.

Good on the author for calling this out and then rebutting with details of their own (not necessarily supporting author’s claims though since I haven’t had time to really think about it just yet).