With all the chaos surrounding the coronavirus, I don’t blame Chinese factories for shipment delays. Just as we wait for their production and delivery schedules, they wait for their suppliers’ timetables. We are blind to the Tier 2 and 3 shops further down the supply chain, and that must change.

The 13,700-square-meter center is equipped with 15 injection molding machines and leading-edge digital technology in the training rooms.

The past two months have seen a plunge of 938,000 job openings. Is that a correction to an unsustainable situation — a greater number of job openings than the total number of people unemployed, as was the case recently — or a leading indicator of coming economic weakness?