Chris Miller

feared that Huawei’s products were now priced so attractively, partly owing to Chinese

The steady tempo of technological innovation that underwrote Moore’s Law required ever more complex materials, machinery, and processes that could only be supplied or funded via global markets

Chang spent his teenage years fleeing the Japanese armies that swept across China, moving to Guangzhou; the British colony of Hong Kong

Soon Mao Zedong’s forces were marching on Shanghai. Morris Chang was once again a refugee, forced to flee to Hong Kong for the second time

raping Grove’s mother, and installing a brutal puppet regime in the Nazis’ place

World War II was a conflict of industrial attrition

an industrial war was a struggle America would win

success in terms of copper and iron, rubber and oil, aluminum and tin as America converted manufacturing might into military power

The United States built more tanks than all the Axis powers combined, more ships, more planes, and twice the Axis production of artillery and machine guns

The war was waged by soldiers at Stalingrad and sailors at Midway. But the fighting power was produced by America’s Kaiser shipyards and the assembly lines at River Rouge