RE: [A-List] China: global assembly shop

["Mark Jones" <markjones011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> This article suggests that China has a long way to go until it is a true
> rival to the so-called Asian tigers. I don't know the author, or
> the Goldman
> Sachs report, but maybe Henry could provide some insight into
> whether any of
> this is true...
>
...
> China's IT imports
> remain higher than its total IT exports, a fact rarely heard amid the hype
> about China's emergence as a high-tech colossus.

Isn't this also true of the US?

The thrust of what follows is that Taiwan isn't yet part of China. Well, OK.
That's how it is now. How will it be in a decade or two? That's the whole
question. If the US is unable to sustain the US-centric world market and if
dollar and US military hegemony cames under strain, then Taiwan will fall,
no?

Mark