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六年专注考研专业课辅导 MTI homework3 China Cranks up the Innovation Machine If you visited World Expo 2010 in Shanghai you ’ll know that the whole experience was one of those “only in China” gobsmacking superlatives. More than 60 million – 60 million – people visited the largest Expo site ever, with a one-day record on Sept. 23 of more than 631,000. （1） As I braved the crowds recently, however, it wasn ’t the metrics of modern China that I was thinking about. It was the mission to China in 1793 by Lord George McCartney, representing Britain’s King George III. Britain was anxious to expand its trade with China, so McCartney, loaded with the manufactured wonders of the early Industrial Revolution, went to plead his country ’s case at the court of the Qianlong Emperor in Beijing. There, in the nicest possible way, he was given the bum’s rush. “As your Ambassador can see for himself,”the Emperor wrote to the King, in a letter he gave to McCartney, “we possess all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country ’s manufactures.” （2） “That was then,”you think as you wander the Expo, marveling at the crowd ’s appetite for the products of more than 200 nations and organizations. “Things are different now.”China may run a huge trade surplus with the U.S., but its economy has been growing so fast that by 2008 it had become the third -largest market for U.S. exports. 育明教育全国统一咨询热线：010 咨询QQ：1559022430 生命在于奋斗，拼搏就是希望；失败只有一种，那就是放弃努力！—育明寄语 六年专注考研专业课辅导 But there’s the question: Just as the closed China of 1793 didn’t last, will the open one of today? The issue here isn’t that a possible trade war with China will close its m