The last blog pierced the China meme – the premise that we need to do trade deals with countries in order to keep China at bay.  But if trade deals with other countries aren’t the way to deal with competitive threats from China, what is? Part of the problem is that trade people look at…

The go-to talking point when a trade agreement is in trouble in the United States is to invoke the specter of China.  When TPP began to falter, the rallying cry for passage was that if we failed to seal the deal, China would score a win, not just commercially, but geopolitically as well.  At the…