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[Joe]

^ From Peter Navarro's documentary, based on his book, "Death By China".

‘Death by China’ author to lead Trump trade office
China hawk Peter Navarro to lead new White House National Trade Council

Donald Trump plans to create a National Trade Council inside the White House to oversee industrial policy and is appointing a China hawk and one of the architects of the populist economic message to run the new group.

Mr Trump has chosen Peter Navarro, a Harvard-trained economist, to head the NTC, his transition team announced on Wednesday in news reported first by the Financial Times. The author of books such as Death by China and Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World has for years warned that the US is engaged in an economic war with China and should adopt a more aggressive stance — a message that the president-elect sold to voters across the US during his campaign.

“I read one of Peter’s books on America’s trade problems years ago and was impressed by the clarity of his arguments and thoroughness of his research,” Mr Trump said. “He has presciently documented the harms inflicted by globalism on American workers, and laid out a path forward to restore our middle class.”

The Trump transition team described Mr Navarro as a “visionary economist” who would “develop trade policies that shrink our trade deficit, expand our growth, and help stop the exodus of jobs from our shores”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_China

In a 2012 article, Andrew O'Hehir of Salon commented that Navarro's "dramatic overkill is both unfortunate and unnecessary, because the questions Navarro asks about our deformed and dependent relationship with China are legitimate and troubling." and "Much of the argument Navarro assembles in Death by China is unassailable as to its basic facts, even if the tone and manner of presentation leave much to be desired."

Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times found that the "alarming and alarmist" film "undercuts its argument with an abundance of inflammatory language and cheesy graphics" and "is also unabashedly one-sided and is short on solutions" but added that "its message, despite the hyperbole, certainly warrants examination and discussion."

Sam Adams of the Los Angeles Times found that the "important political argument at the core of Peter Navarro's agitprop documentary" was "drowned out by xenophobic hysteria and exaggerations so rampant it becomes impossible to tell light from heat."

Ronnie Scheib, from Variety, says "One need not fully subscribe to Peter Navarro's demonization to appreciate his lucid wake-up call to the imminent dangers of the huge U.S.-China trade imbalance and its disastrous impact on the American economy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro

Peter Navarro is a professor of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Navarro holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He has received multiple teaching awards for the MBA courses taught.Prior to teaching, Navarro served in the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia and worked in Washington, D.C. as an energy and environmental policy analyst.

 

[Caelus]

He has received multiple teaching awards for the MBA courses taught.Prior to teaching, Navarro served in the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia and worked in Washington, D.C. as an energy and environmental policy analyst.

Haven't read up on this guy much, could this be a glimmer of hope? (Doubt it).

 

[Impeccable]

Doesn't sound unqualified so, I guess that is a plus? Lol

 

[DragonSworne]

Small government indeed.


What the fuck do we need a trade council for?

 

[epmode]

What the fuck do we need a trade council for?

Yeah, we need a trade czar if anything.

 

[Ac30]

Haven't read up on this guy much, could this be a glimmer of hope? (Doubt it).

That's probably double-speak for "fossil fuel specialist"