News Commentary The pandemic and supply chain disruptions have exposed how dependent countries are on China as the world’s top manufacturing hub, and since last year there’s been a lot of debate about decoupling from China to reduce reliance on a single country. But is decoupling really happening? So far, data suggests that countries and companies continue to invest big in China. Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country surged 19.6 percent in the first nine months of 2021 over last year, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce. Investments from Southeast Asia as well as China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries contributed most to the FDI flow. Meanwhile, U.S.-China trade is booming. Through the first nine months of this year, goods imported from China jumped 19 percent and trade deficit widened 15 percent compared to the same period in 2020. Yet one by one, foreign technology firms are pulling out …