The reality is that free trade is almost a guaranteed election loser (and I say this as a long-standing free trader who is personally opposed to tariffs in most circumstances, including these).
Decades of “free trade absolutism” by America’s elites, “where we unilaterally disarm while our opponent commits economic warfare against us,” have undermined American national security, decimated the U.S. manufacturing base, and betrayed middle and working class Americans, said Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour during a opening monologue on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM.
President Trump called his economic adviser Gary Cohn a “globalist” on the issue of trade in a White House fight over tariffs.
Republicans arguing against tariffs are engaging in revisionism. Both Reagan and Bush took actions to cut back on steel imports.
President Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs will combat China’s “deliberate attempt to bankrupt our strategic industries” vital to our national defense, said Curtis Ellis, the senior policy adviser for America First Policies.
The trade globalist wing of the White House has failed in its efforts to stop President Trump from following through on his promise to protect American industries and jobs by imposing tariffs on imported foreign products.
Richard Nixon had “created a monster” by opening America and the West to China, said bestselling author and Asia expert Steven Mosher in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour.
Nearly 60 percent of American voters say imposing tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum is crucial to the United States’ economic relationship with China.
The avid free trade-wing of President Trump’s administration is trying to convince him to weaken his economic nationalist agenda, which is expected to include harsh tariffs on potentially hundreds of imported Chinese goods.
President Trump is likely to impose the “harshest tariffs” possible on imports of steel and aluminum to protect American industries from countries dumping cheap foreign goods in the U.S.
Jeremy Corbyn has said his party will push to keep the UK permanently tied a customs union with the European Union after Brexit, appealing to Tory rebels to help him vote down the government and block or frustrate a clean, full Brexit.
Populist conservative icon Pat Buchanan has declared victory within the Republican Party, saying “The Bush party has become a Trump party” on the key issues of immigration, trade, and staying out of foreign wars. During the weekly show The McLaughlin
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is urging President Trump to impose tough tariffs on aluminum and steel imports to protect American industries and increase domestic production.
America’s trade deficit is funding China’s military and infrastructure developments, said former Wall Street Journal editor and Asia expert Brett M. Decker on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight.
Americans are increasingly supportive of tariffs on cheap, imported goods from foreign countries to protect American industries and workers against wild globalization.
President Trump has often been critical of the Chinese government, and it figured prominently in his National Security Strategy as a major “strategic competitor” for the United States, but China was only mentioned briefly during his 2018 State of the Union Speech.
“[Mexicans] realize they have more to lose than the United States” in the event of a collapse of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said Curtis Ellis, Senior Policy Advisor for America First Policies.
Two American solar manufacturing companies allege that they were practically driven out of business by Chinese solar manufacturers who unfairly dumped their products in the U.S. market at lower prices.
President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda has spurred a trend of American companies filing a record number of trade lawsuits against foreign competitors in 2017. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, “a wave” of trade lawsuits by American companies against
White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn described China as an “important ally” of the United States in an interview with Mike Allen of Axios on Wednesday — just days after President Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy described China as an adversarial “revisionist power” that steals hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. intellectual property each year and is working to “shape a world antithetical to U.S. values and interests.”
Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times is not a fan of Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon’s address to Japan CPAC on Sunday. In an editorial published Monday evening, the Chinese paper castigated Bannon as a “fanatical populist against globalization,” whose “siren call to constrain China is poisoning U.S. society’s understanding of relations” with the communist nation.
The European Union (EU) believes that the best possible outcome of Brexit talks is a limited Canada-style trade deal with the UK, leaked documents from the Commission have revealed. Brussels officials believe the UK’s insistence on leaving the Single Market
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon gave an address hosted by Citizen Power for China in Tokyo on Tuesday night, in which he talked about China’s aggressive agenda for the 21st Century and the working-class revolt against the elites in democratic societies around the world.
American Majority founder Ned Ryun joined SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily to preview his upcoming bipartisan panel discussion at the University of Chicago about social media and democracy, and his latest articles for Breitbart News warning of China’s economic colonization and calling for an end to the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon was the subject of the New York Times podcast “The New Washington” with hosts Michael Barbaro and Jeremy Peters on Saturday. The segment was built from excerpts of a much longer interview Peters conducted with Bannon.
Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam on Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping embraced “economic globalism,” calling it an “irreversible historical trend” and saying it has “contributed significantly to global growth.” Meanwhile. President Donald Trump denounced unfair trade practices and vowed the United States will not be “taken advantage of anymore.”
United States Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said President Trump is “very supportive” of a deal with Brexit Britain, while taking aim at the EU’s “extreme protectionism”.
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton discussed President Trump’s visit to Japan and American policy in the Pacific on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM hosts Alex Marlow and Stephen K. Bannon.
President Donald Trump says what millions of Americans have known for 25 years but no politician had the brains to understand or the guts to say: NAFTA has been a disaster.
Henry Olsen, author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, discussed the similarities between the Reagan and Trump coalitions with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
As Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announces that he will not be seeking re-election, Breitbart News looks back on the 15 times the pro-amnesty senator represented illegal aliens and foreign workers instead of American workers’ interests.
SiriusXM host Matt Boyle talked on Friday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson of Wisconsin, who recently won the support of pro-President Trump Great America PAC.
The prime minister has revealed to the European Union (EU) how she is preparing to walk away from the bloc without a trade deal, as Eurocrats continue to block Brexit talks from progressing.
The U.S. has proposed imposing a 220 per cent tariff on passenger jets built in Northern Ireland, following the British prime minister prioritising a lengthy transition with the EU and railing against President Trump at the United Nations General Assembly.
“Everyone” wants a free trade deal with the United Kingdom after Brexit, Iceland’s foreign minister told listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday.
Donald Trump sent a warning to Mexico Tuesday night about the NAFTA renegotiations.
Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle company, will soon lay-off more than 180 in the manufacturing unit.
Brexit has received another boost from Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said Britain will have “big horizons and big opportunities” outside the EU and announced his desire for a quick trade deal.
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Leaders of the Group of 20 rich and developing countries spent two days trying to come up with common positions on climate change, trade and migration at their summit in Hamburg, Germany.
U.S. political heavyweight Henry Kissinger believes Brexit could strengthen the Anglo-American partnership and enhance Britain’s role as a “security leader” in the West.
