China no longer a copy-cat economy

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 4 a.m.

September 19 2018: Even if Donald Trump destroys global supply chains, Michael Power argues that is probably too late to rebuild much of the US’s industrial base. Besides the fact that China knows how to make pretty much all that US Inc has been contract-assembling in China, it no longer needs to copy foreign ideas. It is inventing its own.