Editors note: Peter Navarro does a great job defending an aggressive trade stance on China. He and Charles Payne, the news host, reference the letter CPA helped arrange in favor of the tariffs. Peter Navarro, assistant to President Trump, on the Trump administration’s trade negotiations with China. [June 21, 2019 | Fox Business]
Editor’s note: The global steel import lobby has sued to challenge the constitutionality of the administration’s 232 steel tariffs. The suit, in CPA’s view, is unlikely to succeed. The Supreme Court this week declined to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Section 232 statute, sending the challenge to the U.S. Court of Appeals…
Editors note: Good. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration added five Chinese entities to a United States blacklist on Friday, further restricting China’s access to American technology and stoking already high tensions before a planned meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China in Japan next week. [Ana Swanson, Paul Mozur and Steve Lohr |…
Excerpt: “We are living in a new world—the world of attempted Chinese hegemony—and U.S. policy makers had better adjust, fast.” Forty years ago, China wasn’t a global menace. It is now. U.S. policy on Taiwan needs to catch up. [Seth Cropsey | June 18, 2019 | WSJ] In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands have taken…
Editor’s note: In case anyone thought China was a free market, note that they are ordering their national champions to boost monopoly profits. They have economic management tools that we have never thought about. China’s biggest 97 industrial conglomerates, known as the country’s national champions, have been asked to play their part as “stabilisers” in the…
Editor’s note: Romney is presenting himself as a China hawk. Senator Mitt Romney is trying to prevent President Donald Trump from doing what many in Congress fear he plans to: Going easy on Huawei Technologies Co. as part of a trade deal with Beijing. [Jenny Leonard | June 19, 2019 | Bloomberg] In an amendment…
Editors note: CPA helped put a letter together in favor of the tariffs, to counter a letter by multinational corporation‘s that oppose the tariffs last week. Over 600 American companies support President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs on China. The Daily Caller obtained a letter to be submitted during a public hearing by the Office…
Domestic manufacturers reaffirm support for tariffs on China Manufacturing groups send joint letter to president endorsing tariffs Washington. Hundreds of independent U.S. producers today joined with industrial and manufacturing organizations to urge continued tariffs on subsidized imports from China. In a letter to President Trump, the collection of manufacturers and industrial groups expressed support for…
Editor’s note. Roger Robinson of the Prague Security Studies Institute talks about how China’s government owned enterprises raise perhaps $1 trillion from US securities markets .
Editor’s note: Hundreds of America’s biggest companies are fighting hard to keep buying cheap stuff from China rather than rebuild America’s industrial base. The administration continues to move forward with imposing 25 percent tariffs on China. [Curtis Ellis | June 17, 2019 | DailyCaller.com] This week, the U.S. Trade Representative will have an open mic…
