Editor’s note: An excellent article outlining only a few of China’s horrible, terrible practices regarding tech theft and commercial espionage. DuPont Co. suspected its onetime partner in China was getting hold of its prized chemical technology, and spent more than a year fighting in arbitration trying to make it stop. [Lingling Wei and Bob Davis | September 25, 2018…
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Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today said the renegotiated Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) is a substantial improvement over the original deal. The revised agreement can help reduce large, persistent trade deficits within important sectors such as the automotive industry supply chain. Dan DiMicco, Chairman of the CPA, said, “President Trump continues…
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Editors note: CPA Member, Sherrill Manufacturing, discuss how the tariffs could fuel record growth in their factory! Which, by the way, is America’s last producer of stainless steel flatware. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese imports could fuel record growth at a Central New York factory that has become America’s last maker of stainless…
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Many party leaders in Washington like tax cuts but dislike tariffs. Few Americans share that combination of views. [Jim Tankersley | Sept. 18, 2018 | NY Times] Excerpt: “Seventy-four percent of Republican voters say Mr. Trump’s trade policies make them more likely to vote for a Republican congressional candidate.” As President Trump again ratchets up trade tensions with…
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CDJPA Research Note #4 By Jeff Ferry, CPA Research Director CPA advocates the Market Access Charge (MAC) as an innovative tool to address systemic dollar overvaluation due to excessive demand from the international capital markets for dollar-denominated assets. The MAC, which would require congressional legislation, would be a small tax levied on the purchase of…
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Editor’s note: This is the official release by the US Trade Representative finalizing the next tranche of tariffs on $200b of Chinese goods at 10% immediately then 25% on January 1, 2019. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2018Contact: USTR Public & Media Affairs[email protected] USTR Finalizes Tariffs on $200 Billion of Chinese Imports in Response to China’s…
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Editor’s note: This is a very accurate analysis. China’s real problem isn’t the so-called Thucydides trap, which holds that a rising power like China must clash with an established power like the U.S., the way ancient Athens clashed with Sparta. It was Lenin, not Thucydides, who foresaw the challenge the People’s Republic is now facing:…
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Editor’s note: This is President Trump’s statement on implementing tariffs on the next tranche of $200b of Chinese imports. It also adds the intent to go further, targeting yet another $267b of imports, if China does not change its behavior. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2018 Today,…
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Necessary response to China’s continuing unfair trade practices Washington. The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today strongly praised a White House announcement of additional tariffs on approximately $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. The tariffs, which take effect on September 24, are part of the Trump administration’s continuing response to China’s theft of intellectual property and forced transfer…
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“This is part of a comprehensive war against religion,” Jin said. “The Communist Party has begun to see religion as a competitor… They want all of us to pledge our loyalty to the party” [Anna Fifield | September 16, 2018 | Washington Post ] BEIJING — The services at the Zion Church were different from usual on…
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