The migrant workers number well over 100 million, staffing the factories of Asia's export powerhouse.
Nonetheless, the growing frustration about the nation's trade performance could tempt policy makers to raise trade barriers against the Asian export powerhouse.
Germany's decline has been bigger than the United States', but it remains an export powerhouse.
China is building an export powerhouse, but it must still rely on outsiders to do so.
Switzerland - an export powerhouse like Germany - is now being forced to plan a fixed Swiss Frank / Euro link.
The Chinese government operated on several levels as that nation grew into an export powerhouse, Mr. Rodrik said.
What China did was NOT to invest in ways to turn Gansu into an agricultural export powerhouse.
China sells to American companies almost six times as much as it buys, but this is not the first time China has been an export powerhouse.
To grow, we must participate fully in the global market and trade with our allies to become an export powerhouse.
China's emergence as an export powerhouse is as much a measure of broad economic trends throughout Asia as it is a consequence of Beijing's own trade policies.