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For Want of a Washer, an Economy Was Lost

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For Want of a Washer, an Economy Was Lost
A worker is checking drilling tool components at a factory in Xuanhua City in China's northern Hebei Province on Dec. 18, 2019. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Steven W. Mosher
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I learned today that a Bosch factory in northern Kentucky had to shut down an assembly line for lack of parts.

Steven W. Mosher
Steven W. Mosher
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Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America’s leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.
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