TeaHis week We had a cover worldwide. China’s famous hardworking workforce is shrinking, its property boom is finished and the system of free trade that has helped make it rich is disintegrating.
However, Chinese President Xi Jinping has a master plan. The branded “new productive force”, it sets to promote advanced manufacturing, to create high-product jobs, make China self-sufficient and put it beyond the reach of American restrictions. Just a problem. It will not work.
