The Cold War-style weaponization of supply bottlenecks—from the Strait of Hormuz to rare-earth clamps—is forcing countries to rework their strategies in favour of self-sufficiency as geopolitics makes global interdependence harder by the day.
The Strait of Hormuz is a chokepoint created by geology, but there are many other types as wellfinancial, technological and mineral, for example. The denial of advanced semiconductors to one country … [+4708 chars]
