By David J. Lynn, Ph.D. China has become increasingly integrated into America’s economy with a wide range of industrial and consumer goods being imported from China including electronics, clothing, furniture, drugs, food products, machinery and many high-technology components that are essential for our national defense. In fact, in the US, it is virtually impossible to avoid…
Editors note: The soft-pedaling of human rights abuses in China by several administrations and Wall Street should become the next big outrage. They have pretended that a country that kills, detains, harvests organs from and otherwise abuses large ethnic and politically dissenting portions of its population, like Uighur Muslims in concentration camps, is a normal…
Editors note: Managing the dollar exchange rate continues to gain credibility. President Trump has made no secret of his frustration that the United States dollar has strengthened against other currencies. [Matt Phillips | August 5, 2019 | The NY Times] The trade war between Washington and Beijing took an unexpected turn this week as China let…
Editor’s note: CPA’s idea of managing capital flows as probably the only way to achieve a trade balance is gaining traction from new sources. The author is sloppy and incorrect in his tariff analysis. The US needs to use tariffs and manage the dollar, not just one or the other. They are different tools for…
Editors note: The Chinese way. Concealing actions and intentions. “China ‘has not used and will not use the exchange rate as a tool to deal with trade disputes,’ the PBOC said in a statement on its website.” BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank said on Tuesday that Washington’s decision to label Beijing as a currency manipulator…
Currency designation will initiate consultations on trade barriers Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today strongly praised the Trump administration for formally designating China as a “currency manipulator.” US manufacturers have long complained about Beijing’s currency manipulation, which has made Chinese exports artificially cheap in the US market. This is the first time…
Editors note: China’s “unreliable entity” list punishes HSBC for helping catch Huawei’s CFO. Oddly there are still some that say that Huawei is not an arm of the Chinese government. China’s unreliable entity list is being drawn up, and any firm that violates laws and rules in the Chinese market would be investigated and dealt…
Editor’s note: The 25 year old currency war against the US has been joined. Washington – The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 requires the Secretary of the Treasury to analyze the exchange rate policies of other countries. Under Section 3004 of the Act, the Secretary must “consider whether countries manipulate the rate of…
Excerpt. “A.I.’s military power is the simple reason that the recent behavior of America’s leading software company, Google — starting an A.I. lab in China while ending an A.I. contract with the Pentagon — is shocking.” At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology. Why is the company sharing it with a rival? [Peter Thiel | August 1,…
Editors note: China is now fighting back through manipulating the allowed trading band for the renminbi. The US needs to stop sleepwalking through this next currency conflict and pass the competitive dollar for jobs and prosperity act. SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China let the yuan breach the key 7-per-dollar level on Monday for the first time…
