How Taiwan propelled China’s economic rise, with Shelley Rigger
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The Tyons Injection Moulding Revolution in the US
Petro chemical is a state owned enterprise. The steady stream of plastic coming down from those big petro chemical plants enabled these small and medium sized enterprises to be actually a really big for in the consumer economy in places like the us. It's actually quite interesting, the american economic policy makers didn't look at tian's exports as a threat to us. Manufacturing, because the us. Didn't want to be making that kind o stuff. You know, plastic toys is low end and high pollution. So we wanted to be doing more valuable a manufacturing. And it was a kind of discipline for the American economy to have the competition at the lower end, shoes, apparel, bedding
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