ho do you think they manage that and how important is it for the help of the wider global economy? the reality is china needs a lot of products especially technology products from the us. and the us has a lot of companies that run their supply chains through china, so these countries are pretty enmeshed with each other but, in addition, the tenor of global trade is set by the relationship between these two countries. american companies are some of the most biggest and most influential in the world and, for years, they've been moving manufacturing to china with its cheap labour, but if that trend is firmly reversed, do you think it will inevitably result in higher prices and thus more inflation for the rest of us? first of all, it is going to take a while even for companies that might want to shift away from china because china is a very large country with a very strong manufacturing base, so finding alternative to china is not going to be easy.