Opinion: There’s a better way to deal with the trade deficit than the Trump administration’s escalating threats, tariffs and pressure on U.S. trading partners
President Trump’s latest round of punishing tariffs on China, with threats of more to come, will have a devastating effect on the world’s two largest economies. His actions are contrary to the Republican Party’s usual doctrine of free trade, and they have alarmed business leaders, farmers and the American sectors and regions that will most acutely feel the pain of the tariff increases and China’s targeted retaliation.
So where are the Democrats? Until Mr. Trump arrived on the scene, the Democratic Party had itself been sojourning...
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