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Why Everything You Buy Has a 'Made in China' Label…
China accounts for nearly half of the total US exports worldwide, in electrical machinery alone.
Trump brought Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Boeing's CEO to Beijing.
The summit underscored one key message: China’s export dominance and industrial strength set the tone for every negotiation.
In terms of exports, China exports 73% more goods than the United States: $3.77T versus $2.18T.
China's $940B in electrical machinery exports alone nearly matches half of all US global exports, underscoring its manufacturing dominance.
Meanwhile, America's biggest export category is mineral fuels, oil and gas. Things you extract.
China's leading categories are manufactured goods shipped and embedded into economies worldwide.
Xi did not enter the room as a supplicant. China represents 27% of global GDP. The US manufactures 11%. Offshoring America's factory floor in the 1990s appeared rational, but the landscape has changed.
This advantage isn’t easily undone; physical supply chain dominance takes decades to reverse. You can’t fix that with dollars or better software.
Xi told Trump at the Great Hall: "The whole world is watching our meeting."
He was right. Yet most of what they were watching wasn’t visible from the podium.
We broke down 8 summit-defining metrics, from trade shifts to energy dependency. Full story: https://www.vizmaya.fyi/story/the-century-trade-story