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The tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump administration on China recently expired. But the US government is not canceling the tariffs but planning new economic bullying against China. If the United States adheres to the wrong economic policy, trade protectionism will continue to negatively affect US society.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then President Biden’s professed commitment to conduct a foreign policy that concentrates on advancing the interests of the nation’s working families and middle class pays a striking compliment to his predecessor. Donald Trump achieved an improbable victory in 2016 in no small measure by lambasting the foreign-policy establishment -- right and left -- for pursuing immigration and climate policies, trade deals, and military campaigns that harmed blue-collar laborers and other middle-income earners. The Trump administration recognized that dip...
Antiwar.com Original The Biden administration has been attempting to deal with an unruly world and found it no more receptive to his polite talk and gentle ministrations than to President Donald Trump’s vociferous demands and blustering threats. Implementing the president’s active internationalist vision will be harder to implement than planned. President Joe Biden and his advisers are charter members of the Blob, the wide-ranging establishment including politicians, academics, analysts, journalists, business leaders, think tankers, bureaucrats, and staffers who collectively shape f...
Tony Blinken promises no longer to be blind to worker pain.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace February 17, 2021 Live Online As the new Biden administration articulates its foreign policy for the middle class, the United Kingdom, in the wake of Brexit, is also rethinking its own international trade policy for the first time since the 1970s. How well a country manages to align foreign economic policy, such as trade and investment, with broader domestic and foreign policy and security aims is key in a 21st century marked by rising geo-economic competition. Join us for a conversation featuring the British Ambassador Dame Karen Pierce, former W...