Ensuring that investors are able to achieve an adequate return on capital through export in the near-to-medium term represents the most promising path to achieving much greater volumes and, in so doing, maximizing domestic supply over the long term.

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We will most likely see international trade decline further until China embarks upon the path to becoming a service and consumption-based economy at which point the West will begin to export in a big way.

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