This is the kind of downward spiral you may be triggering.. Can you spell d-e-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n? From Wikipedia: The Tariff Act of 1930 (codified at 19 U.S.C. ch. 4), commonly known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot Tariff,[1] was a law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States. Sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, it was signed by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930. […]…
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Korean Television quotes me as saying Trump is destroying “the rules based international order” that America created.
I gave a talk at the South Korean consulate general on Tuesday Feb. 18. The timing was, in a word, amazing:…
Who Xi Jinping Really Is
Why the United States has not responded well to Xi Jinping’s aggressive actions
Tom Friedman and the New York Times editorial page continue to day dream when it comes to China
When I was Beijing bureau chief for United Press International in the early 1980s, we press hacks used to joke about visitors making their first trips to China, spending perhaps two weeks in the country. They could write entire books, they were so confident of their knowledge. But if a visitor spent two months in […]…
