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12/17/2020 08:35 AM EST
This week s slate of China news offers a ready, if grim theme: the arrest or detention of people in China. All three cases, it happens, involve journalists of a sort one a researcher, one a former reporter, and one a publisher.
In Our View: Biden must work for trade policy to benefit all The Columbian
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During four years of Donald Trump’s “America First” shortsightedness, the rest of the world has moved forward. Even during a pandemic-caused economic downturn, other nations have been forging agreements and planning for a robust future while the United States has wallowed in a bunker mentality.
Restoring prosperity for American workers in the wake of COVID-19 will require trade that further opens foreign markets to American goods and signals that U.S. markets are welcoming foreign-made products. This is particularly important in Washington, the nation’s most trade-dependent state.