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Can Biden Achieve Progress Where It Matters While Avoiding a New Cold (or Hot) War?

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The Appellate Body’s paralysis risks creating a system of economic relations based on power rather than rules.

Every day, the news brings more stories of U.S.-China tensions. What led to the U.S.-China trade conflict? And what would a U.S. pro-worker policy toward China look like?

They should let a lot of their companies go bankrupt so that Americans can buy them. They should have the same kind of free market that has wrecked the US economy.

Donald Trump seems determined to double down and keep pressing forward on his trade war with China. He promises more and higher tariffs, not realizing that U.S. consumers are the ones paying these taxes - not China's government or corporations.

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Trump’s burgeoning trade war is more about asserting US dominance in the world than helping American workers.