“The process is brutal, ugly, and extremely painful at times, but China and the United States are delinking their economies,” Jonathan Bass, the CEO of American energy seller Argent LNG, told Newsweek . “Both Washington and Beijing are reconfiguring their trade relations so that they don’t have to be dependent on each other. Both are doing this for reasons of ‘national security.’” At the end of the Cold War, businesses no longer needed to worry about political barriers to trade because