Trade

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/1/2023
  

  Why "Progressives" Want to go Back to the 1950s

  by Walter Russell Mead

  Biden's developing economic and trade policies reflect a turning away from the free market "Washington Consensus" led by Democratic policymakers like Larry Summers. The political benefits of embracing protection, populism and labor seem clear, but the economic effects are uncertain. 

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• 1/22/2023
  

  Do Sanctions on Russia Portend a Return to the Interwar Order of Trade Blocs?

  by Carl J. Strikwerda

  The economic response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of a new Cold War. But a better—and scarier—analogy might be the drastic contraction of global trade and the rise of colonial and imperial trade blocs between the World Wars. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/23/2020
  

  Trump’s TikTok Deal Shows how Trade with China is Woven into the American DNA

  by Sean Fraga

  "Americans’ beliefs about the value of transpacific trade informed every aspect of the transcontinental railroads. This history shows how deeply trade with China is woven into the American fabric and suggests President Trump’s hostility toward China is unlikely to outlast his administration."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt (Review)

  An attack by the pirate Henry Every on a ship owned by the Grand Mughal of India jeopardized the toehold the British East India Company had gained in India. The British government's response helped launch imperial rule. 

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• 5/10/2020
  

  The Real Thucydides Trap

  by Waller R. Newell

  Classical histories are in vogue as explanations for the Coronavirus-fueled tensions between the United States and China. A political science scholar argues that an influential theory gets Thucydides backwards.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/7/2020
  

  How Coffee Ruined a Country

  by Lizabeth Cohen

  Lizabeth Cohen reviews Augustine Sedgewick's book, which argues that coffee monoculture was disastrous to El Salvador.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  4/4/2020
  

  How Coffee Became a Modern Necessity

  Once used to fuel extraordinary acts of worship and creativity, coffee has become a necessity we rely on to meet the everyday demands of modern capitalism.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/29/2020
  

  The Surprising History of the Wildlife Trade That May Have Sparked the Coronavirus

  For the past 40 years, the Chinese government has promoted the wild animal trade as a form of rural economic development.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  "Rogue" Manufacturing in China: Past and Present

  by Eugenia Lean

  As China’s economic power grows, global intellectual property might end up looking more and more like the Chinese tradition of shanzhai in the future.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/9/19
  

  The President Didn't Always Have Power Over Trade Deals

  by William Hauk

  Until the 1930s, it was Congress that set the terms of U.S. trade negotiations with other countries and raised and lowered tariffs as it saw fit, while the president did little but sign his name.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/6/19
  

  Who Will Survive the Trade War?

  by Margaret O’Mara

  History shows that big businesses profit most when tariffs reign. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  6/4/19
  

  Trump Is Making The Same Trade Mistake That Started The Great Depression

  by John Mauldin

  Similar to today, the Roaring 1920s saw rapid technological change, namely automobiles and electricity.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/27/19
  

  19th-Century ‘Humiliation’ Haunts China-U.S. Trade Talks

  China is resisting the Trump administration’s demand that the United States be allowed to impose tariffs if Beijing fails to keep its promises.

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• 2/10/19
  

  We Need to Re-think Our Characterization of Trump’s Trade War, and “Mercantilism” Just Doesn’t Cut It

  by Randal Grant Kleiser

  Characterizing Trump as a “mercantilist” misleads the public into thinking he follows a stable, precedented, and predictable ideology on trade.

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• SOURCE: Telegram
  1/15/19
  

  Trump’s Trade Policy Threatens US Consumer as Much as China

  by Paul Ropp

  Trump’s China policy ignores the complete interdependence of the US and Chinese economies. 

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• 12/2/18
  

  Sure, the Economy’s Great Right Now, but that Doesn’t Mean Trump Deserves the Credit

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  Usually it takes four or five years for the effects of flawed policy-making to become broadly evident.

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• 11/18/18
  

  What’s More Deadly to Mexicans than the Drug War? Diabetes.

  by Alyshia Gálvez

  Here’s why that should concern Americans in the wake of the negotiations over the US, Mexico, Canada Trade Agreement.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-15-18
  

  Trump Falsely Claims E.U. Was Formed to ‘Take Advantage’ of U.S. on Trade

  The European Union was created to end strife and promote economic prosperity — with the support, not opposition, of the United States.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-30-18
  

  Donald Trump has been wrong on trade for 30 years

  by Andrew C. McKevitt

  We didn't need a trade war with Japan in the 1980s. We don't need one with China today.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives (AHA)
  7-20-18
  

  Historians Debate America’s Retreat to Protectionism

  by Dane Kennedy

  Historians, pro and con, debate the merits of Trump's protectionist agenda at a congressional briefing sponsored by the National History Center.