What comes after phase one trade deal with communist China?
President Trump has secured a “Phase One” trade deal with Communist China. In exchange for promises of large Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural products, some American tariffs are going to be foregone, others reduced. Wall Street is thrilled, seeing this accord as a pretext for making more money subsidizing Beijing.
President Trump has secured a “Phase One” trade deal with Communist China. In exchange for promises of large Chinese purchases of U.S. agricultural products, some American tariffs are going to be foregone, others reduced. Wall Street is thrilled, seeing this accord as a pretext for making more money subsidizing Beijing.
Nearly simultaneously, however, PRC Foreign Minister Wang Yi denounced the United States as the “troublemaker of the world” asserting that we had “launched deliberate attacks and defamation” against China over its “territorial sovereignty, national dignity and core interests” in a manner that’s “almost paranoid.”
We’ll see whether the new accord actually produces an economic windfall for American farmers and importers, let alone conduces to a Phase Two agreement that achieves the needed structural reform in China. What is clear, though, is that Phase One relieves pressure on an increasingly hostile and dangerous adversary.
Mr. Gaffney is the host of Secure Freedom Radio, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed Shariah: The Threat to America and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. He acted in that capacity for seven months during which time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by the late Senator John Tower (R-Texas). And, in the latter 1970’s, Mr. Gaffney served as an aide to the late Senator Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Washington) in the areas of defense and foreign policy.
Mr. Gaffney holds a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Mr. Gaffney’s leadership has been recognized by numerous organizations including: the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Award (1987), the U.S. Business and Industry Council’s Defender of the National Interest Award (1994), the Navy League of the United States’ Alfred Thayer Mahan Literary Achievement Award (1999), and the Zionist Organization of America’s “Louis Brandeis Award” (2003), the Western Conservative Summit’s Stephen H. Long Award (2015), the Council for National Policy’s George Washington Military Leadership Award (2016) and the IMPACT Award from Ginni Thomas and United in Purpose (2017).
Mr. Gaffney was born in 1953 and resides in the Washington, D.C. area.
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