Trump's Tariffs Didn't Work. Biden's Won't Work Either.
They favor special interests, hurt consumers, and have utterly failed to rein in China.
They favor special interests, hurt consumers, and have utterly failed to rein in China.
The push for central bank digital currencies is an assault on privacy and freedom.
Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai stresses the need for American competitiveness at the same time that the White House is pushing huge tax increases on U.S. businesses. And that's just the start.
Though domestic crypto transactions were banned back in 2017, today's move signals that Chinese authorities are making good on their threats from earlier this year.
A new study shows that former President Donald Trump's tariffs did little to push American companies out of China.
In June, police stormed the offices of Apple Daily, one of the last pro-democracy newspapers and an unapologetic defender of Hong Kong's autonomy.
Officials look for scapegoats to blame as the working force suffers burnout.
The government appoints itself the nation's parent.
The law just addresses use of individuals' data by private companies, carving out exceptions for government harvesting of data.
Big tech platforms should encourage debate, not forbid it.
Fleeing isn't enough to keep dissenters safe from tyranny.
New GAO report says the process for determining which companies could avoid paying those tariffs was rife with "inconsistencies" and poorly documented decision-making.
An onslaught of antitrust and data-security crackdowns have threatened the country's biggest ride-sharing platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and messaging services.
The Olympics are a great sports event. But there is no reason to tolerate the massive public subsidies, forced displacement of populations, and propaganda coups for authoritarian regimes that go along with them.
The law enforcement agency has a disturbing record of drumming up the very conspiracies they're investigating.
Taxing Americans to punish other countries for having lax environmental rules would be a logistical and bureaucratic nightmare. Democrats are trying to do it anyway.
We don't know if COVID-19 escaped from a lab or not. The Chinese government apparently wants to keep it that way.
After Chinese authorities conducted newsroom raids and arrested top editors, pro-democracy publication Apple Daily realized it could no longer safely operate.
China’s government emphasizes control over prosperity while a demoralized West offers little opposition.
A bipartisan bill aimed to help the U.S. “compete” with China would only slow down scientific progress.
It's ten times more powerful than the current U.S. effort.
Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed will look into the "benefits and risks" of a digital dollar.
For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China’s reproductive restrictions..
Urban Democrats may be leading the charge, but Republicans, too, have enlisted.
Industrial policy is the wrong answer to a problem that mostly doesn't exist.
American consumers are bearing nearly 93 percent of the costs of the tariffs applied to Chinese goods, according to Moody's Investors Service.
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The Senate’s Endless Frontier Act aims to spur innovation but leaves out immigration reform.
Suspicions about a lab leak will continue so long as Chinese officials keep acting like they have something to hide.
Circumstantial evidence that it may have is mounting.
A tale of heartbreak and tenacity in post-Reconstruction Mississippi.
Biden's argument about a strategic competition with China ignores America's advantages.
If you're going to attack Mark Zuckerberg for cozying up to Xi Jinping, maybe you should try harder not to sound like a Chinese dictator.
The effort to redefine everything as infrastructure is a gift to central planners—because infrastructure is, almost by definition, centrally planned.
Documentary short Do Not Split draws the ire of Beijing.
The journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher education, and Hollywood.
Technological breakthroughs mean we'll never again have to suffer with disasters like the novel coronavirus—if politicians will get out of the way.
Many U.S. complaints about China aren’t about actions that threaten U.S. security.
"I do not believe that this assessment was extensive enough."
The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.
A recent WHO investigation has left many questions unanswered.
Trump's trade policies caused "a lot of disruption and consternation," Tai said at one point during Thursday's hearing. "I want to accomplish similar goals in a more effective process."
Further evidence that tariffs simply don't make sense as trade policy. President Joe Biden should take note.
If over-the-top statements likening one's political opponents to Nazis are grounds for firing, Hollywood is in trouble.
Good intentions, bad results.
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