More China — Must Read December 18, 2024 Tuesday, two misconceptions and this from “The Daily” — How China could shut off our hot water — and everything else. Today, Tom Friedman: How Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Can Resolve U.S.-China Relations. “China had its Sputnik moment — his name was Donald Trump,” Jim McGregor, a business consultant who lived in China for 30 years, told me. “He woke them up to the fact that they needed an all-hands-on-deck effort to take their indigenous scientific, innovative and advanced manufacturing skills to a new level.” Wait ’til you read.