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Five supply-chain chokepoints to watch this year
Straits, canals and single-source materials — the short list of places where the world economy can be squeezed.
Pulse Desk46d ago 4 min read
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Globalization didn't remove chokepoints; it concentrated them. Five stand out right now: the Bab el-Mandeb and Suez corridor for containers and energy; the Taiwan Strait for advanced chips; the Malacca Strait for Asian trade; the Panama Canal, still constrained by drought; and a handful of single-source minerals — gallium, germanium, rare-earth processing — concentrated in one country's refining capacity.
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