Commentary: What Trump Gets Right About China

Commentary: What Trump gets right about China

US President Donald Trump's diagnosis of the global trading system is not entirely wrong. However, his solutions miss the mark in tackling the issue, says Yi Fuxian of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Donald Trump is an ideological mangant. And it is precisely that whole cut and stick of foreign policies that makes Trump so problematic. To the Kremlin, putinism has been taken away as a mixture of religion, nationalism and authoritarianism. Gramsci’s Marxism has lifted up the hegemonic battle plan to win the cultural warrior. And from the trade union left it has borrowed the deep contempt for free trade and globalization. From all this cleptom…

What Trump Gets Right About China

By Yi Fuxian, Project SyndicateWhen Donald Trump complains that Chinese exports have contributed to the decline of US manufacturing, he has a point. But no one has paid a higher price for Chinese overcapacity than China, which is now staring down the barrel of demographic collapse. MADISON, WISCONSIN – US President Donald Trump’s embrace of tariffs has been met with considerable criticism, and for sound reasons. But Trump’s diagnosis of the glob…

What Trump Gets Right About China | by Yi Fuxian - Project Syndicate

When Donald Trump complains that Chinese exports have contributed to the decline of US manufacturing, he has a point. But no one has paid a higher price for Chinese overcapacity than China, which is now staring down the barrel of demographic collapse.

US-China trade truce: Trump wants companies to make in America, but Xi readies new production boost plan

For Beijing, manufacturing remains a cornerstone of both national security and job creation. As such, China is preparing to renew its push into high-end manufacturing, even as President Donald Trump calls for American firms to bring production back home