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Trade Deals Must Protect Intellectual Property Rights May. 22, 2018
Donald Trump is now deep into trade negotiations with China and NAFTA 2.0 negotiations with Canada a... Read More
President Backs Off May. 22, 2018
In barely six weeks, President Donald Trump has gone from threatening to impose $150 billion in tari... Read More
China Tries Policing Our Language May. 18, 2018
With a far stronger military and vastly more people than Taiwan, China has long tried to pressure th... Read More
The Dollar Store Saved Us May. 07, 2018
In the city where I live, we have 88,000 people, 17 dollar stores and a Walmart. This why North Kore... Read More
Wars for the Minerals Your Cellphone and Prius Need Apr. 18, 2018
The United States Geological Survey's title for its February 2018 study on "nonfuel minerals" slight... Read More
Trump Should Focus on Debt Crisis Rather Than Trade Apr. 11, 2018
Donald Trump achieved the presidency telling the American people he would "Make America Great Again.... Read More
Trump Didn't Lie to Farmers Apr. 10, 2018
Farmers keep asking why Donald Trump is hurting them on trade when they helped elect him. The better... Read More
Trump's Tit-for-Tat Trade Policy Could Leave the Economy in Tatters Apr. 05, 2018
President Donald Trump claimed in a tweet that "trade wars are good, and easy to win." Unfortunately... Read More
Weaponized Narratives Go to War Apr. 04, 2018
In recent years, American national security agencies and commentators have begun using a new buzz te... Read More
The Art of the Trump Trade Deal Apr. 03, 2018
Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two unde... Read More
China Returning to a More Autocratic State Mar. 21, 2018
Opaque though China's system of government may be to outsiders, there's wide agreement that the init... Read More
Little Ado Over Much Mar. 20, 2018
On a single weekend in mid-March, the dictator of Russia was reaffirmed in his official estate with ... Read More
Trump the Wuss Mar. 18, 2018
There are all sorts of possible reasons to admire Donald Trump, but none more imaginative than one o... Read More
Lies About Trade Mar. 14, 2018
Maybe Donald Trump is such a powerful communicator and pot-stirrer that other countries, embarrassed... Read More
Understanding the Trump Trade Doctrine Mar. 13, 2018
Last week, Donald Trump dialed back his earlier call for a punitive and blanket tariff on imported s... Read More
Trump's Tariffs Are Self-Impoverishing Mar. 08, 2018
Perfection is a rare achievement in Washington, so give Donald Trump credit for the trade policy he ... Read More
No Trade Barriers Mar. 07, 2018
No, President Trump, it's not true that if you tax imported steel, we "will have protection for the ... Read More
Why Is the GOP Terrified of Tariffs? Mar. 06, 2018
From Lincoln to William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, and from Warren Harding through Calvin Cooli... Read More
Fatal Delusions of Western Man Mar. 02, 2018
"We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post. "Remember h... Read More
Are We Losing Mexico? And Canada? Mar. 01, 2018
The United States under President Trump has been retreating from leadership roles in Asia and Europe... Read More
