The claim that the US has 'shipped jobs to China' is misleading; China itself lost the most manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2000 because handloom workshops were replaced by mechanized factories, illustrating that productivity, not trade, destroys jobs in both countries.

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Mike Munger

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a lot of factories a lot of big places that were handloom sort of places in China that closed up and became new factories with four or five people running a highly mechanized process

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Mike Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade 12/3/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:24 AM

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