China
Campaign Ads, China, Corruption, Foreign Affairs, Trump, Unfit
’Chyna’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The Trump campaign has been running ads accusing Biden of being soft on China. That avenue of attack – always dubious, as it was Trump who started a trade war with China to the detriment of American consumers and farmers – has now slipped away, as the allegation’s in Bolton’s book now place Trump at…
Agriculture, China, Economics, Economy, Trade, Trump, Wisconsin
Worse Ahead for Farmers
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The price of supporting Trumpism – whether on economics, immigration, or foreign policy – is decline. For it all, some farmers will choose their own humiliation, their own degradation, for the sake of supporting Trump. Tory Newmyer describes what awaits Midwestern agriculture in Farmers are bracing for more tariff pain. But they’re sticking with Trump…
Bad Ideas, China, Economy, Government Spending, Trade, Trump
‘Chinese-owned company qualifies for Trump’s anti-China farm bailout’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Listen closely, and one can almost hear the peals of laughter from a bureaucrat in the Chinese ministry of commerce… Jeff Stein reports Chinese-owned company qualifies for Trump’s anti-China farm bailout: A Chinese-owned pork producer is eligible for federal payments under President Trump’s $12 billion farm bailout, a program established to help U.S. farmers hurt…
China, Economics, Economy
Chinese Government Turns Against Foundation of China’s Own Prosperity
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
China, ruled by a one-party dictatorship, owes its increased influence in the world to the economic liberalization that has unleashed the energies of Chinese people. The Party, however, lives not for its people but for itself, and now turns against the forces that created new happiness and greater autonomy for many millions, and toward greater…
China, Economics, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Health, Lifestyle, Trade, Trump
A Metaphor for Trump’s Trade Policy
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Wisconsin businesses are bracing themselves for European Union retaliation against Trump’s trade tariffs (“Harley-Davidson motorcycles, dairy products, ginseng, cranberries and other Wisconsin goods are likely to feel the sting of retaliation from steep tariffs announced Thursday by the White House on foreign metals”). Meanwhile, there’s no better visual metaphor for the difference between Trump’s trade…
China, Documentary, Film, Planning
The Legacy of China’s Family-Planning Rules
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
The Party does more than blunder – what it touches, it injures & ruins: In the late 1970s and early ’80s, China implemented rigid family-planning measures to slow population growth—the most controversial of which was the one-child policy. In 2015, China announced that it would drop this rule. However, millions of second and third children…
China, Economics, Economy, Foreign Affairs
The Limits of China Under Communism
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
A single paragraph from Jacob Soll puts China in perspective: There is no historical example of a closed imperial economy facing large capital-driven, open states and sustainably competing over a long term. That is not to say that China isn’t an economic powerhouse and a remarkable site of energy and potential. It is certainly both.…