Trump tried to persuade Xi that Beijing would be better off if Trump beat Biden. Will Biden prove him right or wrong?
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Posted inAmerica and the World
Taiwan Funding of Think Tanks: Omnipresent and Rarely Disclosed
Washington researchers cash five- and six-figure checks annually from Taiwan’s government but bury that conflict of interest when writing about U.S.-Taiwan policy.
Posted inAmerica and the World
What Trump’s Mixed Messages Mean for the Hong Kong Crisis
Chastising China on Hong Kong’s autonomy while pulling out of the World Health Organization is erratic—even for Trump.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: The Emerging Bipartisanship on Supply Chains and China Policy
Plus, government-run pandemic insurance. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 22, 2020.
Posted inTAP
A Growing, If Belated, Republican Discord
Today on TAP: The GOP’s love for laissez-faire is finally cooling
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trade War Inside the Biden Campaign
Will Biden continue corporate globalism—or make American jobs and industry great again?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Man Who Knew
An interview with Barry Lynn, whose prediction about the dangers of centralizing our manufacturing has sadly come true amid the coronavirus outbreak
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Coronavirus Could Reignite a Lurking Debt Bomb
Many have called corporate debt the ‘next financial crisis.’ That never made much sense—until, just possibly, now.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Behind the Coronavirus Threat, a Middleman Destroying Prescription Drug Markets
Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) have driven many of the generic drug manufacturers out of business, and pushed those remaining to locate factories in China, ground zero for the epidemic.
Posted inTAP
A Viral Recession: Trump’s Just Desert
Today on TAP: The president will have to own the economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak