Patrick Basham

Patrick Basham is founding director of the Democracy Institute, a Washington DC-based, politically independent research organization.

Thinking About China January 5, 2018

China’s Unfair and Dangerous E-Payments Policy

President Donald Trump’s Asia trip highlighted the difficulty in reducing barriers to entry for American companies to key ...

Trump’s New Trade Deals Seek to Deter Currency ManipulationWASHINGTON—The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is the first trade agreement in history to directly address the issue of ...Read more
Democrats Line Up Against Trump’s New Public-Charge Policies for ImmigrantsThe Trump administration’s decision to move forward with a long-awaited regulatory overhaul aimed at encouraging financial self-sufficiency among ...Read more
Spygate: The True Story of Collusion [Infographic]News Analysis Although the details remain complex, the structure underlying Spygate—the creation of the false narrative that candidate ...Read more
US Should Embed Human Rights in Every Aspect of Foreign Policy: CECC ReportWASHINGTON—The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issues a report every year on human rights and rule of law ...Read more