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In a hundred years time will China offshore its manufacturing to poorer countries? Not if it has any sense. Today Trump’s great retreat from the tariff war began in earnest as some cold economic realities have begun to bite, but what is the historical long view here? This episode explores how offshoring and America’s weakening dollar supremacy, combined with the ownership of nearly $2 trillion of debt by China and Japan place America in an economic position it has never experienced in its nearly


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