Sure, plenty of Chinese consumers buy American stuff. But it turned out corporate America’s path to big profits in China wasn’t so much finding hundreds of millions of consumers to buy their stuff — it was finding hundreds of millions of workers to make their stuff more cheaply. China has long moved on from the simple manufacturing of textiles and is now manufacturing all kinds of complex products — everything from automobiles to machinery to electronics — and much of it is sold to Americans.
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