● Unmade in China: The Hidden Truth about China’s Economic Miracle
By Jeremy R. Haft
Summary via publisher (Polity)
If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China – from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs – you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world s so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out, China is not a manufacturing juggernaut. It s a Lilliputian. Nor is it a killer of American jobs. It s a huge job creator. Rising China is importing goods from America in such volume that millions of U.S. jobs are sustained through Chinese trade and investment.
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