Tariffs and the Real-World Fallout: What Three Decades Working with Asia Taught Me About Manufacturing, Competitiveness, and Supply Chain Resilience
The law of unintended consequences is alive and well—and it’s hitting American businesses right where it hurts. In 1996, I visited BYD’s first factory in Shenzhen: a modest three-story building with a thousand young women hand-assembling batteries. No automation, no robotics—just a river of rural labor powering the line. Fast forward nearly 30 years, and […]