William Lind, writing at The American Conservative, tells readers that without manufacturing to build on, cities can’t become rich, and therefore can’t revitalize. Lind asks why China has a plan for self sufficiency in manufacturing by 2025, but America does not. China is already on its way to “global semiconductor dominance.” Certainly America should pay […]
Trump Admin Holding off on China Tariffs, For Now
At Reason.com, Eric Boehm suggests that the deescalation of Chinese trade war talk by the Trump administration is a clear win for consumers and businesses. He writes (abridged): The Trump administration’s trade war with China is over—or at least it’s not starting just yet. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, […]
Kudlow: Blame China, Not Trump
In his new capacity as head of the White House’s National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow has begun a push to create an alliance against China’s bad trade practices. To doubters of President Trump’s recently announced punitive tariffs aimed at China, Kudlow said people should blame China itself, not Trump. Bloomberg reports: The U.S. wants to […]
Is China Setting Trump up to Fail in North Korea Meeting?
After North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un met with Chinese President (for life?) Xi Jinping this week, it’s hard not to imagine that the two had a long conversation about Kim’s pending meeting with President Donald Trump. What did they discuss? Was Xi urging Kim to reconcile with America, or giving him pointers on how to […]
Engage with China: Cato’s Chris Preble
My friend, and vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, Chris Preble warns in The National Interest that despite the increasingly aggressive posture of the Chinese government toward dissenters and foreign companies, engaging with China is still better than isolating the country. Any attempts to cajole or pressure the Chinese […]
Is America Prepared for a Second Cold War with China?
Reflecting on President Trump’s recent trip to Asia, Pat Buchanan asks “Again, are we Americans up for a Second Cold War, and if so, why? And why is it America’s job, 12 time zones away, to make sure China tends to her own knitting?” Buchanan continues at The American Conservative: While China is a great […]
China Excels While Washington Holds Back America
Jon Basil Utley, a friend of mine from the Cato Institute and publisher of The American Conservative writes that, while China is building infrastructure connections to the world, America can’t even maintain the infrastructure systems it has. Thanks to Washington’s regulations, America is being slowly strangled by red tape. He writes (abridged): While Washington is […]
Should America Let China Lead in the Pacific and Asia?
Colin Grabow makes the case that the U.S. has more to gain from China’s development of Asia and linking of Pacific nations than it has to lose. China’s One Belt One Road infrastructure program will develop the Asian interior, linking isolated markets and resources to the world. Meanwhile, China is hammering out a trade pact […]
Who Owns the South China Sea Islands?
Pat Buchanan makes it clear that we do not. As Pat writes, the islands are not our vital interest. A naval clash with China over these islands makes little sense for America. Each of the China Sea claimants—Beijing, Taipei, Manila, and Hanoi—have maps going back decades and even centuries to support their claims. The U.S. […]
America’s Best Course in the South China Sea
There is little benefit to America of backing up the claims of allies over disputed territories in the South China Sea. Benjamin Herscovitch explains an appropriate course of action for the U.S. in the region at Cato.org. To avoid needlessly entangling itself in the South China Sea dispute, the United States should not support the […]