Stephen Roach, Senior Fellow, Yale University
Jun 26, 2019
Blinded by a surging stock market and a 50-year low in the unemployment rate, few dare to challenge the wisdom of US economic policy. Instant gratification has compromised the rigor of objective and disciplined analysis. Big mistake. The toxic combination of ill-timed fiscal stimulus, aggressive imposition of tariffs, and unprecedented attacks on the Federal Reserve demands a far more critical assessment of Trumponomics.
Philip Cunningham, Independent Scholar
Jun 18, 2019
President Trump’s childish whims on trade issues can be an opportunity for diplomats who stick to the high ground.
May 28, 2019
President says he doesn’t think they violate U.N. resolutions, acknowledges disagreement with advisers.
May 27, 2019
China would like to make a deal, U.S. president says in Japan. Tariffs on Chinese goods could go up ‘very easily,’ he says
James H. Nolt, Adjunct Professor at New York University
May 24, 2019
President Trump never intended to resolve the trade war he created with China. Instead, he will leverage his tariffs to blackmail China into following his way.
May 24, 2019
President Donald Trump said on Thursday U.S. complaints against Huawei Technologies Co Ltd might be resolved within the framework of a U.S.-China trade deal, while at the same time calling the Chinese telecommunications giant “very dangerous.”
Donald J. Trump, US President
May 20, 2019
“China is obviously not doing well like us.”
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
May 17, 2019
Late last month at a security forum in Washington, DC, Kiron Skinner, Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State, described today’s US-China conflict as “a fight with a really different civilization and a different ideology, and the United States hasn’t had that before.” As a trial balloon, this apparent attempt to define the Trump administration’s confrontation with China did not fly.
May 10, 2019
President says U.S. would impose fresh levies on $325 billion in Chinese goods as negotiators move to salvage potential deal.
May 10, 2019
Trump says it's still possible that the U.S. and China reach a deal this week.