Posted on 04/09/2018 7:58:32 AM PDT by Leaning Right
President Donald Trump’s trade actions on aluminum and steel and his confrontational stance with China on broader trade and investment issues have allies alarmed about both a trade war and the future of the World Trade Organization.
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China’s state capitalism clearly creates unfair advantages, imposes trade deficits and job losses on other nations, and has been the target of many unfair trade complaints in the WTO, but Beijing has invested in top flight U.S. lawyers — for example, Steptoe & Johnson.
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The World (Anti-US) Organization.
Free trade is such an oxymoron. There are thousands of rules regulating trade between countries. Free trade implies no rule other than buyer and seller agreeing on the transaction.
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