China's right: smartphones are a big reason Trump can't win a trade war

Smartphones are like trousers. They're unnatural, a human artifice that our species survived many millennia without, but which has now proliferated to the point of being essential to everyday life across most of the globe. China's meteoric economic rise this century sees the Asian country occupying the dual role of the world's biggest producer and biggest consumer of smartphones. This makes it the most essential nation to humanity's most essential modern tool, and as such, it insulates China fro