Robert Lighthizer was the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) under the Trump administration. Lighthizer was exceptionally strong in developing and structuring the America First trade policy that included the effective use of tariffs to get fair trade outcomes.
In this video Ambassador Lighthizer discusses the current trade policy of the Biden administration with former National Economic Council Chair Larry Kudlow. The discussion centers around U.S-China trade policy, the phase-1 trade deal that was interrupted by the pandemic, and the future of the existing trade tariffs against Beijing that Biden is reportedly going to remove. WATCH:
As noted by Lighthizer, if Biden drops the Chinese tariffs, it will only make the trade imbalance worse and push the U.S. deeper into the cycle of lost jobs and economic contraction. He’s correct.
What will it take to truly get an long term America first policy that cannot be destroyed at the whim of a group of radicals, such as those that seized power in 2020.
Cheers!
Gunpowder and lead I’m afraid.
Invest in precious metals like lead & brass
Lesko Brandon FJB
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Damn right! And bringing it to their doorsteps in their gated communities
I think the USA is failing in the gunpowder and lead game.
One part of our trade is not determined by us and that is exports of military hardware.
The USA has shown it will not go up against Russia. Russia owns the airspace.
Russia sells military hardware. Failure of the USA to attack will be a Russian sales tool and leave the US MIC in the dust.
China will take Taiwan. Huge loss of US arms purchaser.
Next move will be China attacks S Korea through North Korea. S Korea will be significantly degraded in 24 hours. Another US MIC customer bites the dust. Japan would be the next likely target.
They will take the Philippines after Taiwan. They want to block the south China sea. With their new agreement with the Soloman islands they will eventually take over that area of the Pacific.
Vaporize DC.
Truth…social?
👍👍 to all of the above!
We have one last chance, perhaps to resolve this thru the ballot box.
Progress HAS been made, and IS being made, to address election integrity.
Sometimes, things need to get really bad, in order to provoke significant change.
Thats the idea behind “never let a crises go to waste”, which tho cynical, and exploitive focuses on a kernal of truth.
Whether in our own personal lives, or in areas of public policy, we tend to resist change, until provoked by a crises.
As an example, 10-15 years ago, there WAS a real debate about “School choice”, i.e. vouchers.
WE lost that debate, in part because those supposedly representing us didn’t really want to win.
Never the less, its a battle we need to revisit; does anyone think we will lose in a rematch, what with grooming, CRT, and all the crap the Teachers Unions pulled over Covid?
Similarly, just as Public schools have been horrible, for 40+ years, our election system has been corrupt for longer; we have KNOWN this, on some level.
But just as parents actually seeing what crap the schools were teaching their kids has provoked a responce and demands for change, the 2020 election has created a crises, and its NOT going to go away.
Not only is there attention, and focus on BALLOT fraud, there also is “a Great Awakening” to the most insidious form of election fraud; the Uniparty stacking the deck, in the primaries so the choice in the General is NO choice; its Uniparty-D or Uniparty-R, no real choice, at all.
So, 2022 midterms, and 2024 General, is the battle in front of us, and defeating the RINOS is the goal.
After that, WE still have options short of the Ammo box, POSSIBLY.
IF the American people, IN UNITY stand up and say “No! This far but no farther! ENOUGH! WE, the People withdraw our consent, the Conmunists have NO way to deal with that, except to withdraw.
And, hopefully 2 more years of the crap we have been getting, will achieve that unity of intent.
Old Joe just MIGHT “Unite the Country” after all.
IMHO, and in my prayers,..
Praying right along with you, Dutch!
Trump 2020 was our last chance. We needed to run the game for four straight Presidential Elections with MAGA to have any hope.
Eisenhower-style deportation was vital and needed to be done starting in 2021. We never got that and it took Trump a couple of years to finally figure a way to outfox the left on border security (and immediate returns)–which ha been undone faster than he got it in place.
We’re cooked.
I am generally an optimistic person. But I also can see reality when it drops on my head. You’re correct Trump 2020 was our last chance. The Deep State has been metastasizing through our government and culture and media for 75 years. They’ll destroy anything that stands in their way. Trump didnt have a chance even though he had the People’s support.
Tennessee schools have 1/3 of the kids reading and doing math at grade level. Most probably those numbers are extraordinarily high. Vouchers are the only possible way out.
They need to teach kids how to write their names. Currently, the way the current generation signs their name looks like how I would have done it in kindergarten. How embarrassing I would think but to the current generation I guess it is normal.
It’s a systemic issue… Wall Street, GOPe, DNCe, etc… not to mention the foreign hurdles… which is what makes it such an uphill battle for MAGA. You DO need a Great Reset… just not exactly the one being talked about currently.
If there is a country left, need a majority of the population that wants it. Which requires an education system that teaches that value set. My guess would be 40 years to reach that tipping point and another 20 years of political battle.
Its almost as if they’re trying to destroy the country.
Does anyone here still think the farm supply shortages are accidental?
Almost trying?
That’s their plan.
Exactly.
Not trying.
Doing.
Make everyone dependent on gov’mint.
Making everyone subjects of the government.
Wholely dependent serfs.
btw, US importers who become members of CTPAT (Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism) receive substantial benefits, most important of which is that their imported shipments (including from China, Mexico, etc) are essentially exempt from inspection.
With all the fentanyl, terrorism, counterfeit merchandise , fake medicines, etc this has always seemed like a bad idea.
Who are the CTPAT members? Sorry, that’s a secret.
One word, Transshipment.
Cannot get it through the front door? Then there’s the back door, and the window… The international trade must flow to enrich the few, regardless of cost to the many.
The Spice must flow!
How CTPAT works
When an entity joins CTPAT, an agreement is made to work with CBP to protect the supply chain, identify security gaps, and implement specific security measures and best practices. Applicants must address a broad range of security topics and present security profiles that list action plans to align security throughout the supply chain.
CTPAT members are considered to be of low risk, and are therefore less likely to be examined at a U.S. port of entry.
CTPAT Benefits
CTPAT Partners enjoy a variety of benefits, including taking an active role in working closer with the U.S. Government in its war against terrorism. As they do this, Partners are able to better identify their own security vulnerabilities and take corrective actions to mitigate risks. Some of the benefits of the program include:
[From the USA Gov. website for CTPAT}
CCP is the wef’s wünderkind. Joe the thief supports the goals of the wef……..foreign and domestic
Joe and his criminal family are paid well for the support.
indeed
Economic leverage. Trump and his team understood this.
We are the largest economy in Earth. They (the world) need us more than we need them.
On Earth. Typo.
Unfortunately, we DO need them, for medicine, for electronics, etc.
We MUST become self-sufficient again. God bless him and Prez Trump.
We don’t NEED them at all.
We’ve been sold out to the lowest bidder but that is CHOICE not NEED.
Not for long. How long are people going to put up with turncoats.
Wish I had an answer. Our kindness, tolerance, and decency are being used to enslave us…
WAKE UP AMERICA…..The desired effect of their policies is to humiliate, subjugate and destroy this country any way they can……Obama is out in the open boldly lying, Guilt Projection to the n-th degree rallying the troops, student loan forgiveness, next comes federal legalization of Marijuana and twenty-how many states have dominion machines? Suddenly a dozen or so dhimocrats Senators/congressman are having 2nd thoughts about slo-joe policies……gim’me a break……W T F U
Lesko Brandon & not just FJB, the whole District of Corruption. It’s US or them.
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Destroying this country with a whole lot of inside assistance.
DC, state and local governments, corporations
and institutions bought and paid for to do the bidding of CCP.
Love of money and power over love of country.
The roots go back to the treasonous Council On Foreign relations. Both anti-american Neocon Bush Administrations, along with Clinton’s, Obama & this illegal one.
Bush’s NWO was the treason dismantling of American manufacturing and our economic independence & prosperity to China. PDJT found the Magic Wand that Michael Obama’s wife said would be needed to bring the jobs back that they criminally pushed out of here
I alwsys thought it going back to Nixon opening up relations with China.
Disasterous.
Biden is China’s Colonial Governor, their Proconsul of America and a Wholly-Owned Appendage of Chairman Xi’s scrotum.
And his entire China Cabinet, too.
Exactly 💯 💯
Without a doubt, the Biden Administration is willfully and passionately destroying our Republic! Everything Trump did to protect this Republic, while being attacked by the Dems and IC, is being undone.
Biden is the front/face of this. The ones that are pulling the strings, are mostly hidden in the shadows.
His administration are wannabes in training for various levels in the DS.
It’s like they want to destroy the USA.
Potato is helping the dishonest CCP finance their forced reunification of a currently free and independent nation ? ….fjb
Stolen
Trailer #2
https://rumble.com/v1238uc-2000-mules-trailer.html
Look up the numbers by year yourselves. Note when the criminal Treasonous Free Trade deals were implemented. Keep in mind China illegally gave the democrat campaign finance committee boatloads of illegal contributions to get them PNTR, entry into the WTO, along with US military,nuclear, and industrial tech, along with tens of millions of good US jobs. Treason of the highest order.
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US Census Bureau
Trade in Goods with China
https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
Thank you for the information
Without Trump back in office before midterms, will we have an economy to be concerned with, much less a functioning trade agreement?
“Every nation that rose to world power did so by protecting and nurturing its manufacturing base – from Great Britain under the Acts of Navigation, to the United States from the Civil War to the Roaring Twenties, to Bismarck’s Germany before World War I, to postwar Japan, to China today. No nation rose to world power on free trade. From Britain after 1860 to America after 1960, free trade has been the policy of powers that put consumption before production, today before tomorrow.
The historical record is clear. Nations rise on economic nationalism. They descend on free trade.
Pat Buchanan.
Suicide of a Superpower
I voted for him whenever possible, long live Pat Buchanan!
Excellent book!!
and it was prophetic, as I believe (off top of my head), it was written in 2010 approx.
My regards to you both. I strongly suggest his book “The Death of The West”
Did I hear Lighthizer right when he said biden had some good people working on trade, and he was supportive of them?? But if they do this hes done with them?
WTH? I dont know who is working with biden on trade, but he sounds too trusting of them.
Lighthizer always plays things diplomatically, just as he did while working in the Trump administration, which is probably as it should be given his unique position as trade ambassador in the past… as well as his current and potential future roles where he may have to negotiate and work with people in power.
Maybe someday lefties will realize what an outstanding economic and trade team POTUS Trump assembled.
When people tell me how stupid he is, I always ask what they think of his trade policy.. That was such a stealth boon to our national security situation!
Our elite politicians don’t care about the average voter 2 minutes after the polls close. They’re in politics to get wealthy. To enrich their families and close associates. Collusion with thugs and criminals is the norm. A humbled and ruined democratic republic is their goal. The elites won’t rest until the USA is a socialist/communist country. Their thirst for destruction and personal wealth is only matched with their desire for total control. List the ways that the present congress and administration have enhanced our freedom. ZERO. How have they protected American citizens from invading foreign nationals? Thousands of people have flooded across the border. Infectious diseases NO PROBLEM. If you live in a gated community, have government funded guards (I. E. Hunter Biden) you’ll be safe. Work at an entry level job and you’ll soon be laid off as an illegal alien will work for less cash paid under the counter. Have a large family? Struggle with inflation. Have a business? Try paying for gasoline, diesel, insurance, and theft of inventory all while paying higher wages and taxes. Meanwhile your local customers will be closing their small manufacturing businesses as our tariffs on Chinese imports get repealed by our mentally challenged occupant of the White House.
Acually, it might even help if there was a so called president who didn’t hate America and Americans. That would be a great first step. I actually hear a woman say the he had done more for the country than any for years, and couldn’t figure out what country she was living in. Biden is an American hater. He will never do anything to put America back on track.
Gotta get that 10% for the big guy.
Good God, I love that man!! He is soon 75, sharp as a tack , a national treasure.
May he live long and be at our service for many years!
Joe Biden, Bringing the Pain. To Americans.
Every Damn Thing He Does.
Xiden is a turncoat and should be remove from office. Every police is to destroy America.
Sundance, I will always be grateful for you – it was an honor getting shot at for Americans like you; it is currently an honor to able to go into you house on fire to rescue you… I have been getting into comment section arguments with guys I respect greatly like Michael Walsh who think Trump can’t win again because people just hate him or that Trump didn’t hire the right people… “DeSantis is the guy who can navigate the politics, etc.” I absolutely love DeSantis but I am very reserved about how he will be handled by the donor class assholes…
Will Ron DeSantis or anyone else hire people like Wilbur Ross or Bob Lighthizer to do more in 2018 to save our economy in 2022? My gut is telling me that cutting the corporate tax rate in half and the recent trade deals are going to save us from the current misery – and these two guys along with Trump did it. It is easier to invest in this country than in recent times.
Maybe when Biden’s in Delaware in his oxygen chamber, they’re teaching him to speak Mandarin or Cantonese. Remove the tariffs on China? What next?!!
Remove Chinese tariffs? They should have been just short of nuked for SARS-CoV-2 alone where, just as with the original SARS they allowed it to spread worldwide by violating pandemic reporting rules, but since they effectively own “our” government…
Chinese hackers behind most zero-day exploits during 2021
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-behind-most-zero-day-exploits-during-2021/
“Zero days” are exploitable and typically major computer security vulnerabilities that have just been discovered and, thus, have not been protected against.
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
(2016)
It wasn’t a “secret” as is even revealed in the book. GREED on this side of the Pacific caused it to be ignored.
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept (2019)
They weren’t “sleeping.”
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win (2022)
That return on that billion the Chinese gave hunter biden ranks up there with the $24 of beads the Dutch gave the Indians for Manhattan.
Sundance – “As noted by Lighthizer, if Biden drops the Chinese tariffs, it will only make the trade imbalance worse and push the U.S. deeper into the cycle of lost jobs and economic contraction. He’s correct.”
Yet, the US Consumer and Voter has little knowledge background on the impact of Trade Imbalances and Movement of Skilled Work off Shore will never told these impacts and will not deduce the impacts even from the data or from logical assessment of tariff removals.
The story will be a repeat of the lies 2016-2020: President Trump’s trade polices caused prices to rise. So, we (the Government) will fix that by removing the “trade barriers” and voila Prices GO DOWN and the Government claims its first major action to fix inflation. Just in time “to help keep it close in November”.
Very few US voters can actually link the whole employment-GDP-economic environment system together.
Lighthizer might be my favorite PDJT cabinet member.
Interesting that Lighthizer has endorsed McCormick in the PA GOP Senate primary while PDJT went for Oz. I think I like Lighthizer’s choice better here (though for the record, I’m voting for Carla Sands in that primary).
Lightzhiger only states the obvious. It is a feature not a bug for them to roll back tariffs and harm the US. The whole goal of the Obama/Brandon regime is to destroy the US.