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A Decline in US Manufacturing Because of Globalization and China? Don't Believe This Fake News

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2021

Farok J. Contractor*
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, USA

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Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The International Association for Chinese Management Research

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