Opinion: China’s right: Smartphones are a big reason Trump can’t win a trade war

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"There’s an asymmetry here that Mr. Trump seems unaware of. Apple can’t build an iPhone without China, but China can build hundreds of millions of devices approaching the iPhone’s quality without Apple’s help," writes Vlad Savov, responding to an editorial published in the Communist Party mouthpiece Global Times.

Lucas Niewenhuis

Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at The China Project. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing. Read more

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