How the Chinese trade deal led to the Great Awokening

Twenty years on, who are the big winners from globalisation?

It was the day in 2001 that changed everything, the day after which nothing would be the same again, the day when the century really began and the end of history… anyway you get the laboured point, and can guess from this overly portentous opening that the plot twist is I’m not talking about September 11.

There is certainly an argument that December 11, …