{"id":88148,"date":"2016-02-21T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88148"},"modified":"2016-02-21T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:34:29","slug":"u-s-china-trade-national-review-is-the-buffoon-not-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88148","title":{"rendered":"U.S. – China trade: National Review is the ‘Buffoon,’ not Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

From American Thinker<\/a>: In one of National Review’s hit pieces against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump (“What Trump Doesn’t Understand – It’s a lot about our Trade with China<\/a>”), correspondent Kevin D. Williamson called Trump a “dangerous buffoon” because he would threaten tariffs upon China’s products and thus risk a trade war with China.  But it’s not Trump who is the buffoon on trade; it is National Review!<\/p>\n

\nTrump plans to take on the huge U.S. trade deficit with the world, and especially with China.  He threatens to place upon Chinese products a tariff like the 45% tariff that China recently placed upon some U.S. cars.  Such a threat could lead to negotiations between the U.S. and China about balancing trade, and Trump wrote the book on negotiations.<\/p>\n

When an article tears into a candidate for having his facts wrong, the magazine that prints it probably should check to make sure that the candidate is actually wrong.  But; National Review <\/i>failed to fact-check this piece.  Its correspondent, Kevin D. Williamson, wrote:<\/p>\n

“China did put a punitive retaliatory tariff on some cars made by GM and Chrysler…. That was a 12.9 percent tariff, incidentally, nothing like the 45 percent that Trump imagines, and it is being withdrawn. Chinese buyers in fact love American cars — a Buick is a much bigger status symbol in China than in New Jersey.”<\/p>\n

More at American Thinker.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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