The country’s top executives from Wall Street and corporate America are working directly with President Obama and members of his cabinet and appointees on passing a free-trade agenda that is unpopular among the president’s natural constituents of democrats, labor unions, environmental and consumer groups and the American public as a whole. [by Richard McCormack…

  Please get it right this time and correct the failures of past trade deals…..all of them!  President Reagan gave a speech that established the principle of “free and fair trade with free and fair traders.” More specifically, he established the 3 R’s: Rules, Reciprocity and Results. “Rules” mean that the trade must be rules…

  John R. MacArthur of Harpers Magazine tells Bill Moyers that the TPP is a way to send more jobs to Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries. Full Show: Democrats Bow Down to Wall StreetMoyers & Company, December 12, 2014 Negotiators from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are in Washington this week for a new round…

  What that “Made in China” label really means. This isn’t NRO’s dedicated China spot, but I’ve got one last CCP piece to write before moving back to more cheerful subjects. [by Josh Gelernter | December 13, 2014 | National Review] There was big news last week: that China had overtaken the U.S. as the…

  President Obama acknowledged Dec. 3 that the Chinese exercise of cybertheft is “indisputable.” While he encouraged American CEOs to speak out about China’s behavior, others, such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, could not be more eager to pander to senior Chinese officials in order to nudge his way into a lucrative new market. Facebook…

(Editor’s note: The US trade deficit with China provides the massive amounts of foreign cash needed to build their military.) For all the focus on maritime disputes in the South and East China Seas, there is an even greater peril in Asia that deserves attention. It is the rising salience of nuclear weapons in the…

  An undercover investigation by BBC reporters into Chinese iPhone factories has found that workers are still being mistreated and that tin used in Apple Inc. gadgets could well come from dangerous illegal mines where children’s lives are put at risk. [by Karen Friar | December 19, 2014 | MarketWatch] For its “Panorama” documentary, which…

  China is openly undermining the United States’ vision of a free and open Internet. Motivated by maintaining the fragile balance between information control, social and political stability, and continued modernization and economic growth for an online population of over 600 million, the Chinese government is attempting to alter how nations understand their role in…

  In a significant move, five House members from the Ways & Means Committee notified President Obama that global tribunal provisions should be excluded from future trade treaties. Most, if not all, of these congressmen have voted for past agreements that did included the Investor State Dispute Settlement (global tribunal) mechanism.  ISDS basically means that…

  For Immediate Release:Contact:Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741, [email protected] Symone Sanders (202) 454-5108, [email protected] Leak of Obama Administration Trade Pact Proposal Reveals Negotiations Affecting Net Neutrality, Limits on Data Privacy Protections U.S. Internet Governance Policy Should not be Designed in Closed-Door, Industry-Influenced Negotiations of U.S. Trade in Services Agreement WASHINGTON, D.C. – While a domestic debate about net…