In China Hearing, Commissioners Ask About Investor Risk But Witnesses Urge Caution
The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission hears from three witnesses who say don’t pick on China when it’s down.
Questions for the Record | Leveling the Playing Field: How to Counter the CCP’s Economic Aggression
This past May in, testimony before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), CPA’s Roger Robinson, Jr. delivered a comprehensive examination of how U.S. investor capital is being used to fund China’s malign activities that directly threaten U.S. economic and national security.
It’s No Delusion: Manufacturing is Essential for Prosperity
Recently, we’ve seen a barrage of attacks on the pro-manufacturing policies enacted by Congress in the past two years. According to The Economist magazine, the world is supposedly in the grip of a manufacturing delusion. There is no delusion. On the contrary, it is a delusion to believe that a nation in the 21st century…
Industrial Policies Gain Support in the Academy
Last month, the Wall Street Journal published an attack on Joe Biden’s industrial policies arguing that Bidenomics “needs more…economic theory or research.” This theme has been picked up by numerous other media publications. Economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers appeared on a Peterson Institute video to argue that restrictions on free trade, such as…
Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Yes, Tariff China More, Big Majority Say
Some 66% of Americans say we should keep tariffs on China.
Will the Inflation Reduction Act Benefit American or Chinese Solar Companies?
If Washington hopes to launch a viable domestic solar industry, it must fully enforce U.S. trade laws and confront China’s continuing attempts to suffocate America’s solar industry.
Companies Using Forced Labor Should Be Removed from U.S. Financial Markets
It’s time for Congress to force the issue — and condition access to America’s financial markets on ending corporate complicity in China’s egregious human rights abuses.
Sen. Rubio Asks Securities & Exchange Commission What It’s Doing About China Stocks Coverup
After a July report by Reuters saying Chinese securities commissioners were banning companies from risk disclosures, Sen. Rubio calls for SEC action.
Falsehoods & Facts: The Truth About De Minimis
Background De minimis is a regulatory loophole. It was morphed from a tiny customs administrative exception into a backdoor superhighway through our ports. The regulatory changes to de minimis enabled overseas vendors around the world to ship directly to American citizens, currently to the tune of two million per day. And they do this without…
Washington’s Job is to Do What’s Best for America, Not Maximize Corporate Profits
It’s not Washington’s job to protect the investments that companies make in China. But it should be a priority of Congress to ensure that U.S. industrial policies, like the CHIPS Act, can benefit our companies and our workers.