by Richard Schulman US education was in crisis before the Covid-19 pandemic; now it is worse. Progressives love to play the race card against Republicans on every occasion, but in the real world, especially the world of education, it is the progressives to whom that inflammatory accusation best applies. K-12 public education in Democrat-controlled cities […]
International resistance to China grows
US blocks Chinese access to additional defense-related US technologies. Coalitions of democracies to resist China are expanding on four continents. The CPTPP has become newly popular. Will the US rejoin? One off-note: Treasury’s currency manipulation report. The weekly trade report with L.C. The Commerce Department announced on December 18th that it has added China’s Semiconductor […]
Pandemic Trade War or Great GAFA Tax Heist?
France can’t decide whether it wants to exemplify the reason and logic of René Descartes or the “bed-wetting” (President Charles DeGaulle’s term) of the May 1968 student rioters. The latter now seems the preference of the French government as exemplified by its unprincipled tax attack on four hugely successful US internet companies. The attack should […]
Taiwan’s defense is in US national interest
Taiwan is the fortress island dominating the sea passage between the South and East China Seas, the linchpin of the first island chain of US allies that blocks the Chinese navy from dominating Asia’s coastal nations from Japan and South Korea down to Indonesia and Australia and westward past Singapore and India to the Persian […]
Administration concedes failure of bilateral pacts
Bilateral pacts have long been the administration’s preferred trade policy, but not any longer The weekly trade report with L.C. Bilateral pacts have been the Trump administration’s preferred policy from day one of its tenure. Bilateral pacts, by comparison with multilateral pacts, tend to promote protectionism – my nation and yours vs. the outsiders — […]
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