Open letter to President Trump Dear Mr. President, You need to inspire the nation if you want to win. Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel, in the June 12th edition of that paper, writes that too often you are running against yourself. Amidst a pandemic, mass unemployment, riots, and demonstrations, the country yearns for “calm […]
Lighthizer calls for US industrial policy
The weekly trade report by L.C. Addressing the Economic Club of New York on June 4th, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer declared: “After the [pandemic] crisis is over, we have to have an industrial policy that assures the US has in any future crisis the ability to manufacture at home all the things that we […]
Democrats to blame for rioting and looting
by Richard Schulman Is what happened a surprise? It shouldn’t be. The governors of urban Democratic states created a lumpenproletariat by shutting down their states’ economies. They then condemned to the confines of their apartments the lumpen they had created, week after week, month upon month. When a police killing that was immediately and universally […]
UK, in reversal, bans Huawei 5G
Calls for ten-nation “club” to build own 5G network The weekly trade report by L.C. There were two important Huawei developments this week. Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou lost her bid for a Canadian court to halt her extradition to the US, and the UK reversed its earlier decision to allow Huawei to be […]
Xi Jinping a laughingstock; Congress passing tough new bills
The weekly trade report with L.C. The confrontational atmosphere in US-China relations is intensifying. On Capitol Hill the bipartisan push for stronger measures continues. Within the Administration there are still debates over what actions to take in response to Chinese misbehavior, but those pushing for a harsher break with China are reportedly winning. Xi Jinping […]
