After President Obama decided to impose a 35 percent tariff on Chinese-made tires, China reacted angrily and predictably: threatening to impose its own tariffs on American auto products and chicken meat. Nationalist bloggers urged China’s leaders to Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin - via New York Times (Editorials), Real Clear Politics, New York Times (Opinion)
One-sided trumpeting of the rightist globalization argument this so-called leftist editorial page always gives. Never considers how tariffs might work to protect U.S. manufacturing if the gov't gave incentives for U.S. companies to keep manufacturing here. Germany somehow keeps manufacturing so why can't we? Furthermore, the unsustainability of increased CO2 emissions from continued globalized shipping is entirely ignored.
