The US and Chinese economies may be uncoupling their trade and financial ties but their prospects remain entangled, as the first part of this two-part series on China and the US spelt out: not through trade and finance, but through other, subtler mechanisms. Likewise, their respective banking sectors appear at first glance to be almost completely separate; but a closer look using network analysis techniques paints a subtly different picture. There are some patterns of shocks that discriminate between US