Mês: agosto 2018

China—Not Russia—Elected Trump   James Walker Aug. 27, 2018   While media and political attention are focused on Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election, attention should be sharply focused instead on the role of China in electing Trump. It is that concern that should inform American action today. China’s long-standing predatory trading policies have eaten America’s lunch, impacting most severely those who carry lunch buckets to work in America’s heartland. These predatory policies have included most prominently currency manipulation, unfair trading practices and, most damaging of all, intellectual property theft. The combination of these policies have hit the American manufacturing worker the hardest. Unemployment, decades of declining incomes and loss of dignity are the prices many of these workers have paid. The Democrats did little effectively to relieve the frustration of workers in America’s manufacturing industry with failed trade policies as they watched their jobs move offshore. Trump came along, recognized their plight and decided to do something about it. So they voted for him in traditionally “blue” states. His economic policies now aim to reverse the neglect of the Chinese threat to the U.S. economy and confront it directly before it is too late. The Chinese have been manipulating their currency for decades, and America has lacked the leadership or political will to do much about it. Here is an explanation so America’s elected members of Congress might...