Plus: Beijing’s decade-old “Made in China” plan has narrowed the country’s tech gap with the West, according to a U.S. study. Gas company Sunoco is set to acquire Canada’s Parkland, which would create the biggest independent fuel distributor in the Americas. And Skechers is going private. Charlotte Gartenberg hosts.

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