The Chinese Invention That Holds Lessons for Trump: Supply Lines

The earliest historical evidence of wheelbarrows appeared in China about 2,000 years ago, a historian explains on YouTube, and it took another 12 centuries before these single-wheeled pushcarts arrived in Europe.

Yet there’s a more recent story about wheelbarrows that holds lessons on current economic affairs — specifically, the US’s trade war against China and the rest of the world.

As Shawn Donnan reports here for Bloomberg Businessweek, President Donald Trump celebrated his 100th day in office during his first term at an Ames True Temper wheelbarrow factory in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. At one point, the plant made 85% of the wheelbarrows sold in the ...