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Making Money – Gary Hamilton and Cheng-Shu Kao

September 19, 2020
Western retailers and merchandisers ship their production overseas, primarily to Asia. Hamilton and Kao trace the rise and fall of Taiwan as the main OEM destination for these retailers. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Taiwanese businesspeople, they show how intermediate-demand driven supply chains structure production according to the logic

Schism – Paul Blustein

August 9, 2020
In his book, Blustein chronicles the contentious diplomatic history that led to China's WTO membership and the subsequent trade woes that resulted from the China Shock.