by jpitney | Oct 15, 2025 | China, Economic Policy, Trade
Lingling Wei and Gavin Bade at WSJ: In its trade standoff with Washington, Beijing thinks it has found America’s Achilles’ heel: President Trump’s fixation on the stock market. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is betting that the U.S. economy can’t absorb a prolonged trade...
by jpitney | Oct 11, 2025 | China, Trade
Vivian Wang and Keith Bradsher at NYT: As the trade war between the United States and China kicked back into high gear after a period of tentative détente, it was clear just how vast the gulf of misunderstanding between the two superpowers had become. President Trump...
by jpitney | Apr 20, 2025 | China, Technology, Trade
Nathan Gardels at Noema writes of the unanticipated consequences of the trade war: … Keyu Jin, author of “The New China Playbook: Between Socialism and Capitalism,” points out that the tariff war will also result in reshaping China’s industrial structure, likely...
by jpitney | Jan 28, 2025 | China, Foreign Policy, Trade
Karlyn Bowman at AEI: There is longstanding concern in public opinion about China’s unfair trade practices as well as sustained support for protecting workers’ jobs and American manufacturing. Fifty-two percent of registered voters in the new Harvard CAPS/Harris...
by jpitney | May 2, 2024 | China, Public Opinion
by jpitney | Feb 18, 2024 | California Politics, China, Journalism, Journalists, Public Service
DRT panel on student journalism, February 22 lunch Join the Dreier Roundtable for a panel centering the role of student journalism on college campuses. In today’s political and social climate where free speech is under scrutiny, student newspapers play a critical role...