8/5/2020

CHINA/JOE BIDEN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump’s ‘phase one’ trade deal with China is failing — badly. Trump hasn’t even managed to secure half of China’s purchase commitments under the agreement…

Even before the pandemic, Trump’s go-it-alone trade war was hammering American workers, small businesses, and farmers: sharply increasing the U.S. trade deficit, causing a spike in farm bankruptcies, and helping to sink American manufacturing into recession.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement on Trump’s Failing Trade Deal with China,” medium.com, Aug. 5, 2020