U.S.-China trade relations may be broken, but turning the clock back on any progress that has been made so far does not seem the best way to fix it.

FORBES: Back To The Future With China

In the 1840s, an English author famously wrote that if every person in China lengthened his shirttail by a foot, British cotton mills would work around the clock.

NPR: Marketing to Millions: China's Changing Tastes

That Germany should try to wind back the clock and start producing the low-end consumer goods that for years now it has imported from China or other cheaper centres of production?

ECONOMIST: European politics