The trade deal was never about curbing China or maintaining U.S. influence in Asia.
Clyde Prestowitz
Clyde Prestowitz is the author of Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions. He is also president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Washington, D.C.
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Competing with China
Steve Bannon might have been right about just one thing—the United States needs to play China’s game.
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Can Trump Handle China?
During the campaign, Trump made a lot of promises to balance U.S. trade with China.
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Could America Act Like China?
Trump’s trade appointments represent a drastic change from business as usual.
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Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.
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Why Losing TPP Won’t Hurt the U.S. in Asia
TPP is a big deal, but not for American foreign policy.
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The Pacific Pivot
America needs to try something new when it comes to international trade.
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Our CEOs, Their Foreign Agents
From our July/August print issue: International business executives with enormous domestic influence cater to the demands of authoritarian regimes abroad.
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China as No. 1
In the 15th century, Venice was one of the world’s richest cities and ranked among the great powers because its navy controlled the Mediterranean and its merchants controlled the trade in goods, especially spices. Then Portuguese Captain Vasco da Gama arrived in India in 1498. By 1515, the Portuguese controlled the Straits of Hormuz, the […]
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Snowed Under
As the Labor Department reported employment falling last week — in the midst of what the White House is calling a strong economic recovery — Secretary of the Treasury John Snow traveled to Japan and China, where he and his request for more flexible exchange rates were buried beneath the treacly politeness Asia employs when […]