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Why American Workers Should Welcome Chinese Investments

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

The New York Times is apparently worried that President Trump will mistake China for a friend, and it has been engaging in a blitz to stop him from establishing a partnership with China.  On the first day of Trump’s visit to China,  the editorial board opined:

When Mr. Trump first won the presidency a decade ago, he correctly labeled China a threat to American interests and criticized past U.S. presidents for their naïveté. In both of his terms in office, however, Mr. Trump has weakened the United States relative to China.

When Mr. Trump first won the presidency a decade ago, he correctly labeled China a threat to American interests and criticized past U.S. presidents for their naïveté. In both of his terms in office, however, Mr. Trump has weakened the United States relative to China.

On May 9, it had published a front-page story about a man who texted an aide to the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party an offer of $10,000 for information about the committee’s work.   The article did state that  “Beijing and Washington have been aggressively spying on one another for decades,”  but the paper placed it on its front page nevertheless.   And on May 8 in its pages a contributing opinion writer warned:

Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the United States, largely to build factories on American soil. It would be an unforced error of world-historic proportions.

Mr. Trump and Xi........

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