Donald Trump was derided during the 2016 US presidential election for saying globalisation, and specifically China, had destroyed US manufacturing. The experts said he was wildly wrong, that the sector was in good health and that ‘Make America Great Again’ was populist nonsense.
Nick Peters reports on new analysis that suggests Trump was right and they were wrong, and questions whether we in the UK should start to worry. The real health of the American manufacturing sector has been questioned, something we have been led to believe has been doing very well in recent years. We are becoming accustomed…
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