US Universities And Retirees Are Funding The Technology Behind China’s Surveillance State

Editors note: China’s access to the US equity market, not just our consumer market, has become a very big issue. Millions of dollars from US university endowments, foundations, and retirement plans have helped fund two billion-dollar Chinese facial recognition startups: SenseTime and Megvii. The Chinese government is using their technologies to surveil and profile its…

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Trade deal with China is impossible

Excerpt: “The accession agreement China signed when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 was supposed to deal with most of those practices, but President Xi Jinping has cultivated regulatory and business cultures that make an enforceable agreement virtually impossible.” President Trump has bipartisan support for his new tariffs and sanctions on Huawei to…

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USMCA SAA Cover Letters

Editor’s note: this letter, in PDF form, is the draft statement of administrative action which Trade Ambassador Bob Lighthizer sent to Congress to move towards starting the ratification process for the US Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA).   Read the PDF draft statements here

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Press Release: Latest Treasury Report on Exchange Rates Overlooks Currency Misalignment

Private foreign capital is weaponizing US dollar against domestic producers   For Immediate Release Washington. The US Treasury Department has released its latest semi-annual report on exchange rate policies. As expected, the report did not cite any countries for engaging in “currency manipulation” that would push the dollar higher relative to their own currencies. However,…

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China Cannot Weaponize Its U.S. Treasury Bonds

Editor’s note: Important for financial press (and others) to understand this. Excerpt: “By purchasing fewer U.S. government bonds… Beijing would leave the United States either unchanged or better off, while doing so would also leave China either unchanged or worse off.” Note: This is a follow-up to an article here from May 16 and an updated version of…

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