Checks and Balance: Chain reaction - a podcast by The Economist

A container ship stuck in the Suez canal, tensions with China, and the vaccine race have combined to make America’ssupply chainslook vulnerable. President Biden has ordered a security review and hisinfrastructure planincludes measures to protect them. What are the politics of this new mantra of resilience? 

The Economist’s US business editor Vijay Vaitheeswaran and Soumaya Keynes, our trade and globalisation editor, join the discussion.

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Jon Fasman.

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