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As president, I will restore American strength on the world stage and focus our attention and resources on deterring Xi’s Chinese Communist Party — the greatest economic and security threat facing America today. My goal is straightforward: We win, and they lose. My treasury and commerce secretaries will focus on American interests, not Wall Street’s access to Chinese markets. I will create an Office of Economic Security and Competition to prioritize reshoring and friendshoring critical production, protecting technologies and reducing reliance on adversaries. I will defend American workers and innovators from illicit technology transfer and intellectual-property theft. I will align...

<p>It's generally not a good idea for a politician to force himself between a driver and her vehicle, especially if, say, the driver is a swing-voting, SUV-driving suburban mother in a battleground state dependent on the automobile industry. The situation would become downright combustible if the politician had a history of advocating high gasoline taxes. That, however, is precisely the position in which John Kerry finds himself.</p>