There’s been a lot of talk about “friendshoring” since Treasury secretary Janet Yellen first used the word in 2022. The concept is one of the key ways in which the Biden administration’s approach to trade and supply chain resiliency differs from that of Donald Trump. But it’s been difficult to get beyond talk, in part because the US hasn’t had a clear, granular picture of its own capacity in key industrial sectors — let alone that of its friends.
美國財政部長珍妮特?耶倫(Janet Yellen)在2022年首次使用的“友岸外包”(friendshoring)一詞引發(fā)了熱議。這一概念代表著拜登政府在貿(mào)易和供應(yīng)鏈韌性問題上有別于唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)的主要方面之一。但它迄今一直難以超越空談,部分原因是美國政府對本國在關(guān)鍵產(chǎn)業(yè)領(lǐng)域的能力——更不用說盟友的能力了——沒有清晰、細(xì)致的了解。