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My new book, "Broken Engagement," with interviews of top China policy makers is like a conversation across administrations about engaging with China, competing with China and, more recently, defending against China.
bob davis
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bob davis
@bobdavis187
Author of "Broken Engagement" --interviews on U.S. China policy--and "Superpower Showdown" with @Lingling_Wei on Trump's trade war. bobdavisreports.com
Washington, DC
Joined December 2010
- Replying to @BGrueskinOh and treating cancer doesn’t put the hospital workers at risk of dying.
- WSJ edit page editor @WSJopinion doubles down on op-ed on Jill Biden. Claims the criticism is the work of the Biden camp playing the gender card instead of commentary on an insulting opinion piece that was so dumb it could be read as parody.
- Replying to @JohnJHarwoodMakes you realize how skilled Nancy Pelosi is. She managed the House with the same margin.
- A Marcos might soon be back in power in Manila. That’s because political dynasties are more powerful than parties. @Daniel_B_Davis explains the forces propelling Bongbong Marcos to the presidency despite the family's legacy of graft and corruption.
- BREAKING: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is set to announce plans to build an advanced chip factory in Arizona as U.S. concerns grow about dependence on Asia for the critical technology. with @Kate_OKeeffe @asafitch wsj.com/articles/taiwa… via @WSJ
- Trump administration gets rolled by the Chinese. NEC's Kudlow said that Beijing was close to accepting $200 billion trade deficit reduction. @nytimes echoed. Never close. Joint statement tries to paper this over. with my partner @lingling_wei wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ
- Matt Pottinger on making China policy under Trump. "We have to stop kidding ourselves that we can turn a great white shark into a bottlenose dolphin by treating it sweetly."
- Trump claims China "deal" was the "greatest and biggest" win for farmers, but China probably came out ahead. Lots of wiggle room for Beijing on purchases, plus they were able to ignore U.S. pressure on structural issues @Lingling_Wei @Chao_Deng wsj.com/articles/china… via @WSJ
- Capstone of great WSJ @JohnCarreyrou coverage of Theranos. Fall in Theranos stock cost WSJ owner Rupert Murdoch $100 million. Kudos to him for standing by his reporters. wsj.com/articles/sec-c…
- In an interview, Mike Pompeo pushes for recognizing Taiwan and ditching "strategic ambiguity." When Biden said U.S. would defend Taiwan, "I wish he had followed up with deeds. We spend too much time dissecting simple words." .
- SCOOP: Commerce boosts its China firepower by hiring Xi Jinping scholar Elizabeth Economy as an advisor to Secretary Raimondo. wsj.com/articles/democ… via @WSJ
- Wages for the typical worker—nonsupervisory employees who account for 82% of the workforce—are rising at the fastest rate in more than a decade. Economic growth takes a long time to kick in for low-wage workers, but it does have big impact.
- NSC confirms that Kurt Campbell aide @RushDoshi is the NSC’s China director. Young smart China scholar who does primary research in Mandarin.
