Today on TAP: Biden’s latest actions on behalf of a domestic steel and shipbuilding industry
China
Posted inEconomic Policy
TSMC Chips Deal Promotes the Logic of Biden’s Industrial Policy
It rebuts the idea that a lack of skilled U.S. workers is an impediment to manufacturing growth.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The U.S.-Japan Summit and the Nippon Steel Deal
Will the Japanese enlist Biden to let the Nippon acquisition of U.S. Steel proceed?
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The Trade War Within the U.S. Government
Today on TAP: Why does the National Security Council keep trying to wrest control of trade policy to help Big Tech?
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The Corrupt Trifecta of Yass, Trump, and Netanyahu
Today on TAP: Yass’s payoffs to Trump are part of his efforts to destroy democracy in the U.S. and Israel, while helping China.
Posted inTAP
The Clock Is Tik-Toking for Tech
Today on TAP: Forcing divestment of Chinese ownership of TikTok is no substitute for comprehensive data privacy regulation. It’s a first step.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Chinese Auto Conundrum
How can the U.S. hit its factory revitalization and climate goals when BYD and other Chinese automakers can sell for less?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Corporate Attack Dogs Find a New Subject to Bully
Beth Baltzan, a non-Senate-confirmed staffer to the U.S. trade representative, Katherine Tai, has been targeted by Big Tech firms as a way to sully Tai’s decisions about digital trade.
Posted inPolitics
Why Alejandro Mayorkas Wasn’t Impeached
It may have had to do with his recent announcement on stopping goods made with forced labor, which potentially swayed a Republican China hawk to vote no.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Will Biden Get Chip Markets Right?
A new paper outlines how to avoid worsening market concentration in semiconductors with billions in subsidies for U.S. onshoring.
