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China is the sole manufacturing superpower: A line sketch of the rise (cepr.org)
12 points by elashri 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



> When it comes to gross production, China’s share is three times the US’ share

Hmm, and also China is four times bigger than US by population. So per capita US is still ahead, interesting...


> Taiwan, Mexico, Russia, and Brazil now have higher gross output than the UK.

It would be interesting to see Russia to have more manufacturing output than the UK...


I think which region you are in changes your perception. In America, I don't think I have ever seen a non-software russian product. In China (perhaps ironically) I saw a lot of Russian products.


That is affected by how much trade particular country does with Russia, but you can look at the source, the Russian manufacturing, and all its limitations, and Russia can't export more than it produces, so if the source is small...


US manufacturing dominance was one of the main reasons the Allies beat the Axis powers in WW2. This is a very, very bad situation we’re in. Frankly, it should keep you up at night.




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