Tag: trade

Although Donald Trump won the White House with a vow to reinvigorate a manufacturing base essential for America’s future, he failed to stanch the torrent of U.S. corporations absconding to countries with abysmal working conditions and lax environmental regulations.

Decades of industrial decline left America unprepared for the pandemic. COVID-19 simply caught America flat-footed.

Bad trade costs millions of American jobs. Trump’s brand of deal-making won’t bring them back.

Even most of the Chinese public wants the inhumane event to be shut down.

... Every problem looks like a nail?

"Trump created a fake crisis and has announced a fake 'solution' that actually is terms that already the U.S. and Mexico had agreed months ago."

There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law.

... Every problem looks like a nail?

For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction.

After all, for thousands of years, the indigenous people of the land Detroit now sits on engaged in freely giving what was needed to others. The practice is ancient.