Today on TAP: All the details of the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework remain to be filled in.
China
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Trade Group Driving Solar Controversy Includes Slave-Labor Companies
Companies working to sideline the Commerce Department investigation into Chinese trade violations are reliant on components made by Uyghur workers.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Why China-Bashing Is Counterproductive
A response to Robert Kuttner on messaging about the U.S.-China relationship and uplifting workers across borders
Posted inAmerica and the World
Mercantilism and Racism: The Case of China
A response to Tobita Chow’s rejoinder on U.S.-China policy and politics
Posted inTAP
Weakening China Tariffs Will Not Relieve Inflation
Today on TAP: Some in the administration are again pushing for tariff cuts. Their approach is bad economics and worse politics.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trade Fight That Could Doom Biden’s Industrial Policy
A long-awaited bipartisan bill on domestic manufacturing could run aground because of House-Senate differences over its trade chapter—reflecting intense corporate lobbying.
Posted inCoronavirus
In Shanghai, the Essence of Authority Was Silence
The lockdown crisis in China’s richest city recalls decades of past food shortages and stirred a restless citizenry to speak out about a broken social contract.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Is It Racist to Criticize China?
Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Supply Chains Are Easing. Or They’re Not.
Our system is so unstable that we could be seeing endless waves of supply dysfunction, with dangerous impacts on the economy.
Posted inCoronavirus
China’s Mysterious Vaccination Failure
Why did the Communist government fail to inoculate so many of its seniors?
