Peter Navarro arguably has the toughest job in the White House.
You see, Dr. Navarro directs the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. He comes to work every day to be greeted by new evidence of China’s no-holds-barred economic war against the United States, from its cheating on trade to its theft of intellectual property.
His findings are summarized in a new report entitled,
“How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World.”
The report itself is 36 pages long, but I can summarize it in two words: China cheats.
China cheats by protecting its home market from American imports with high tariffs, tricky non-tariff barriers, and costly, constantly changing regulations.
China cheats by subsidizing the exports of government-owned “national champions” to crush its free market competitors and dominate global markets.
China cheats by preying on weak counties, locking up their natural resources with “debt traps” in an obvious effort to gain a global stranglehold on key resources like bauxite, copper, nickel, and rare earths.
These monopolies are not only being used to fuel China’s industrial machine, but to punish those countries who would oppose its predatory policies.
China cheats by subsidizing manufacturing with cheap loans and cheap energy, and also by turning a blind eye to environment, health and safety standards. Because of its cheating, it already dominates industries ranging from ship production and refrigerators, to color TV sets, air conditioners, and computers.
Above all, China cheats by stealing key technologies and intellectual property from the United States and other countries. These activities range from cyberespionage and forced technology transfer down to massive open-source collection and plain-old physical theft.
You see, Dr. Navarro directs the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. He comes to work every day to be greeted by new evidence of China’s no-holds-barred economic war against the United States, from its cheating on trade to its theft of intellectual property.
His findings are summarized in a new report entitled,
“How China’s Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World.”
The report itself is 36 pages long, but I can summarize it in two words: China cheats.
China cheats by protecting its home market from American imports with high tariffs, tricky non-tariff barriers, and costly, constantly changing regulations.
China cheats by subsidizing the exports of government-owned “national champions” to crush its free market competitors and dominate global markets.
China cheats by preying on weak counties, locking up their natural resources with “debt traps” in an obvious effort to gain a global stranglehold on key resources like bauxite, copper, nickel, and rare earths.
These monopolies are not only being used to fuel China’s industrial machine, but to punish those countries who would oppose its predatory policies.
China cheats by subsidizing manufacturing with cheap loans and cheap energy, and also by turning a blind eye to environment, health and safety standards. Because of its cheating, it already dominates industries ranging from ship production and refrigerators, to color TV sets, air conditioners, and computers.
Above all, China cheats by stealing key technologies and intellectual property from the United States and other countries. These activities range from cyberespionage and forced technology transfer down to massive open-source collection and plain-old physical theft.
Thinks America should just bend over when other nations prevent fair trade and that way we won't be hypocrites. 
