Today, the focus is virtual production.

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Rather, Beijing wants to make sure that it has a sufficient physical stake in North American production to influence virtual trades.

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Increases in crop production and productivity, together with virtual-water trade, will mitigate the regional inequities of availability.

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Before you limit the possibilities of which businesses those are, consider this: a toy brand can be entirely virtual with someone else doing every aspect of the production and delivery.

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The SLYDE concept enables an infinite variety of virtual mechanical movements without being subject to the constraints of real-life production.

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