America seeks to curtail China's industrial espionage forgetting that its rise to power was a result of similar methods
Chinas rise to global power has seen America attempts to slow it down, however, this is likely a loosing battle.
Having imposed tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods, the Trump administration is trying to force Beijing to abandon what it calls its brass-knuckles drive to exploit American technology to speed its own economic modernization. In the days before instruction manuals, manufacturers needed workers who knew how to assemble and operate machines acquired from overseas.
Figuring his prospects were brighter across the Atlantic, Slater disguised himself as a farmer, boarded a ship to the United States, signed on with a business owner in Rhode Island and replanted Britain's cutting-edge cotton-spinning technology on American soil. Back in Britain, he was accorded a rather different nickname: "Slater the Traitor."
They found nothing; the secrets were all in Lowell's head. He would go on to establish a textile-producing empire in Massachusetts.
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