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Beijing Keeps Losing Friends

Beijing is facing complaints there about its trade policies in the Global South that sound remarkably like those coming out of Brussels and Washington.
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Beijing Keeps Losing Friends
A drone view of Yangluo Port in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on April 12, 2020. Getty Images
Milton Ezrati
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China’s communist regime seems to be making enemies everywhere. Beijing’s aggressive trade policies have already undermined its so-called goodwill in the United States, Europe, and Japan, where all have raised trade barriers against Chinese goods, and the incoming Trump administration will likely impose more barriers.

Milton Ezrati
Milton Ezrati
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Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, a New York-based communications firm. Before joining Vested, he served as chief market strategist and economist for Lord, Abbett & Co. He also writes frequently for City Journal and blogs regularly for Forbes. His latest book is "Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live."