What Broke Free Trade?

What Broke Free Trade?
Stacked electric cars wait to be loaded onto a ship at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, on Feb. 8, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The financial news media is reporting that China’s lending policies are undergoing another shift, away from troubled real estate and local land development back to manufacturing. This is not the market speaking. It is a decision made from the center, by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and carried out by the central bank. The target is, of course, mainly U.S. manufacturing, electric cars, and “green energy” capital such as solar panels.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]