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Markets are no longer pricing growth within globalisation. They are pricing survivability within fragmentation. Capital is now pricing survivability under supply chain disruption, strategic optionality across jurisdictions, policy credibility of host economies, and durability of revenue models under trade friction simultaneously.

Map tariff exposure at supplier-node level, not country level. Country-level analysis understates operational exposure where intermediate goods cross multiple borders before final assembly.

Shift supply chain strategy from optimisation to optionality. Operational resilience is now a capital markets variable. Lean-optimised supply chains carry a structural risk premium that was not present before Q1 2026.

US tariff escalation (effective rate 145% on Chinese imports) adds 1–2pp inflation pressure over 2–4 quarters via consumer goods, intermediate inputs, and upstream cost transmission.

Dollar weakness under risk-off conditions is anomalous and warrants monitoring as a potential signal of reserve currency credibility stress rather than normal safe-haven behaviour reversal.

Managed Fragmentation (elevated tariffs persist, slow supply-chain restructuring, extended monetary constraint, markets reprice to new normal) is the Q1 2026 base case at 43% probability. Method: structured judgement across institutional median forecasts, market-implied pricing, and policy signal analysis.

China-to-US supply chains should be treated as structurally impaired, not temporarily disrupted. 145% effective US tariff rate and 125% Chinese retaliation represent a regime change, not a cyclical trade friction.

Africa is evolving from peripheral exposure to a strategic infrastructure layer for supply chain diversification, resource access, and alternative market development as Western-China bilateral trade fragments.