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Rana Foroohar

China and America are locked in destructive co-dependence

The global superpowers need each other for economic reasons they would rather not admit.

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What’s the best language through which to understand the complex events of the world today? Is it economic? Political? Cultural? I’ve begun to think it might be psychological.

Psychologists (at least many of those I know) tend to divide the world into two types of personalities: paranoids, who operate as if they are always playing a zero-sum game; and depressives, who are more willing to embrace nuance (and thus sadness).

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Rana Foroohar is a global business columnist and an associate editor at the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst.

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