Dean Baker — Using Protectionism to Try to Keep China Down

There is a recurring theme in public discussions, seemingly embraced by everyone from Steve Bannon to columnists at the New York Times and Washington Post, that we should use protectionist measures to try to keep China from overtaking the U.S. as the world’s leading economic power. This effort is both incredibly wrongheaded and doomed to failure…

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Using Protectionism to Try to Keep China Down
Dean Baker | Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C