Democrats argue Trump’s China policy risks ‘strategic failure’
A new report, issued ahead of the president’s summit with Xi Jinping, takes aim at the administration’s record on trade, diplomacy and other aspects of American power.
Senate Democrats argue in a new report that the Trump administration’s diplomatic and trade policies are weakening America’s advantage over China as the two countries compete to be the world’s leading economic and military power.
Published Tuesday, the report asserts that the administration’s vast use of tariffs, its uneven — and at times hostile — stance toward allies and loosened rules on the sale of advanced semiconductors risk “strategic failure.” Its release, less than a month before a high-stakes summit in Beijing between President Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, marks an attempt by Democrats to seize on a rare foreign policy issue that still has wide bipartisan consensus in Congress.
