The trade order fragments along moral lines
Latest Processing Gap
Three signals, one direction: the large shared container — global trade, the shared internet, the common platform — is being partitioned into sovereign rooms. Decoupling has stopped being an economic strategy and become a structure of feeling.
Appearances
The USTR concluded that 60 economies failed to enforce forced-labour import prohibitions and proposed added tariffs — 10% on fifteen partners including the EU, UK, Canada; 12.5% on forty-five more including China, India, Japan. On Hacker News the most-discussed pieces were a "European Social Stack" arguing for European-built digital infrastructure and a UK debate over age-gating the internet.
Three signals, one direction: the large shared container — global trade, the shared internet, the common platform — is being partitioned into sovereign rooms. Decoupling has stopped being an economic strategy and become a structure of feeling.