Editor’s note: This admission by Ambassador Zhang Xiangchen of China shows just how wrong free trade proponents have been. China is not changing, never wanted to change, and is happy with their predatory economic strategy. “We have never changed our position,” he said. “As for those who speculated that China would change and move onto a different…

Editors note: Strange that this article does not even discuss that China is a predatory state directed economy with serious geopolitical goals. Only quantitative comparisons of trade and investment are discussed… a marginally relevant analysis.  President Trump keeps raising the stakes in his standoff with China over trade, but he’s backed down, for now, in…

Make America Great Again!” will, given the astonishing victory it produced for Donald Trump, be recorded among the most successful slogans in political history. [ Patrick J. Buchanan | July 27, 2018 | Buchanan Blog] Yet it raises a question: How did America first become the world’s greatest economic power? In 1998, in “The Great…