Charlie is mixing apples and pears and pretending the confusion lies with his critics like myself.
My reference was not to Charlie's snippet from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics purporting to show "foreign-funded enterprises" responsible for roughly a third of its total exports, although I would be interested in knowing how this does or does not square with Starrs' data, favourably cited by Roberts, indicating that " most of China’s key exports were made by foreign companies (70%), not Chinese companies; and that most of the profits from China’s exports were realized in the imperialist bloc, not in China." I was instead referring to the other snippet produced by Charlie from a German think tank showing the export intensity of *all* major economies in which the US lags well behind its competitors. It was this to which my comment referred.. I noted that this measure in itself was misleading since it " does not distinguish between the dollar share of (a country's) domestic exporters and that of foreign corporations operating on their territory" and that the relevant metric, as Starrs and Roberts point out, is the huge global profit share of US TNC's relative to the national TNC's of other countries with global operations. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35400): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35400 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111336789/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
