China today is not the China of the pre-COVID age, but many commentators think it is still an economy based on cheap manufacturing.
Western commentators still unable to see the advances in China By Daryl Guppy
Several weeks ago, Thomas Friedman, diplomatic editor of The New York Times, travelled to China and published his impressions in a syndicated article on the country’s “staggering manufacturing muscle”. He concluded that “while we were sleeping China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything.” He failed to understand that this is not China redux.