Chinese Political History II: Chapter 5, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution
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TASK
Rewrite "WTO entry cost the US a million jobs" as an accurate statement.

PROBLEMS
1. "Cost": it treats a correlation with imports as a cause and a net loss.
2. "A million jobs": the source says about a million manufacturing jobs were
   lost to import competition between 1999 and 2011, an estimate.
3. "WTO entry": the period starts in 1999, two years before accession on
   11 December 2001, and imports depend on many factors.
4. It omits the offsetting estimate: Chinese imports lowered US
   manufactured-goods prices by about 7.6 percent from 2000 to 2006.

REWRITE
"One summary estimates that about a million US manufacturing jobs were lost
to import competition from China between 1999 and 2011, and that Chinese
imports lowered US manufactured-goods prices by about 7.6 percent between
2000 and 2006. These are estimates from a single source, and the researchers
behind such work have revised the net picture (see Economics
Fundamentals 9)."

RULE
Give the figure, the period, the source, and the offsetting effect, and do
not turn an estimate into a cause.