

Trump vowed to cut the US trade deficit, but instead it’s reached historic highs. He wanted China to buy more American products, but that hasn’t happened as much as Washington would like. And he’s made almost no progress on big structural issues that American companies care most about.
China demands that China-based branches of ABC, the Los Angeles Times, the Minnesota Public Radio, Bureau of National Affairs, Newsweek and Feature Story News declare in written form info about their staff, finance, operation&real estate in China within 7 days from Mon.
Covid-19 was supposed to be China’s Chernobyl. It’s ended up looking more like the West’s Waterloo. That is the argument that John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge make in their new book, “The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It.”