Where Biden Agrees With Trump
The Biden administration has been more skeptical of free trade than many predicted, and remains hawkish toward China.
“It’s unfortunate that it feels like we’ve been wrapping something with wrapping paper, in a box, and we’ve got something hidden in there,” says Katherine Tai, the United States trade representative. “It’s really complicated right now.”
Tai was discussing with me a long-delayed comprehensive review of American trade policy toward Beijing, something that she began formally in a major speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies yesterday and that she said she had been iterating in policy decisions up until now. But the need for rethinking and the imperative of caution came up over
