Parting Shot in our February 2022 issue
China
Posted inPolitics
Congress Proposes $500 Million for Negative News Coverage of China
The effort to counter China’s ‘malign influence’ would fund negative coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—while also beefing up the U.S.’s international lending.
Posted inEconomic Policy
China: Epicenter of the Supply Chain Crisis
How concentrating dependence on China upended our economy and added risk
Posted inAmerica and the World
Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives?
Anti-war politicians have become willing to criticize failed adventurism in the Middle East. They’re more reluctant to pump the brakes on Ukraine.
Posted inPolitics
Congress Tries to Compete
A domestic manufacturing bill that represents one of the Democrats’ biggest legislative efforts of the year is released.
Posted inTAP
Patriotic CEOs?
Today on TAP: Intel Corp., once a national champion, then a major partner of China, recommits to making it in the USA.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Global Risk From China’s Desire for a Blue Sky
China wants Beijing to look good for the Olympics. Global manufacturing output will suffer as a result.
Posted inPolitics
Making China’s Case: Manchin, Sinema, and the Six Supremes
By demonstrating America can’t ensure the right to vote or to survive a pandemic, they’re bolstering the argument that authoritarian regimes work better than ours.
Posted inEconomic Policy
America’s Steel Spine
Will Biden resist pressure to weaken tariffs against China’s steel subsidies and double down on his industrial policy to revive domestic steelmaking?
Posted inPolitics
2022: The Year in Governing
Here’s everything to look out for over the next 12 months.
