China

Virtually no well-­known mainstream economist agrees with Trump, or his top trade adviser Peter Navarro and trade representative Robert Lighthizer, that America’s trade deficits are the result of unfair practices by other countries. Martin Feldstein, the former chairman of Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, has pointed out that America’s global trade deficit is due to the fact that its consumption outweighs its domestic production. Imposing tariffs on low-­cost Chinese goods will not rectify this structural feature, but will serve only to make many essential goods less affordable to ordinary Americans. Kishore Mahbubani in Harpers Magazine.

Southeast Asia, China, and the Belt and Road Initiative: Still Going Strong? (5/15/2024)

Securing China-US Relations within the Wider Asia-Pacific (1/29/2023)

Singapore’s Role as a Neutral Interpreter of China to the West (12/4/2023)

China’s leader Xi Jinping secures third term and stacks inner circle with loyalists (10/23/2022)

Four Takeaways From a Times Investigation Into China’s Expanding Surveillance State (6/21/2022)

Congress is Playing a Loser’s Game on China, and Biden is Going Along (5/24/2021)

That Time when America was a Superpower before Trump surrendered to China (1/27/2021)

How incompetent Boob Trump took down America and launched the Chinese Century (12/28/2020)

Chinese ministry warns of war with US: John Bowden (5/20/2020)

To Bannon, if not to Trump, the linchpin of Trumpism was China. The story of the next generation, he believed, had been written, and it was about war with China. Commercial war, trade war, cultural war, diplomatic war --- it would be an all-encompassing war that few in the United States now understood needed to be fought, and that almost nobody was prepared to fight. FIRE AND FURY, Inside the Trump White House: Michael Wolff

As corporate America stripped the US of factories and much of its manufacturing, other countries, particularly China benefited and prospered.

China's economic growth rates over the years have been impressive.

Is It Possible Trump Is on the Right Track With China? (12/7/2019)

Tariff hikes not a win-win for China, US (5/23/2019)

America and China: Destined for Conflict or Cooperation? We Asked 14 of the World's Most Renowned Experts (7/30/2018)

What China Threat? How the United States and China can avoid war By Kishore Mahbubani

Bibliography

• Has China Won ? Kishore Mahbubani
• China and the World
• The Perfect Police State, An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
• Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, by Graham Allison.
• Red Flags: Why Xi’s China Is in Jeopardy, by George Magnus.
• Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of U.S. Power in the Pacific Century, by Richard McGregor.
• Rethinking China’s Rise: A Liberal Critique, by Xu Jilin. Translated by David Ownby.