In these industries, China is not so much an engine of demand as a transmission belt for demand originating elsewhere.

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As a motorist, don't sit in a parked car studying the map: fasten your belt and fire up the engine in no more than five seconds.

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The belt of circularity in America's economic engine, however, is broken.

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