Honk if you can’t keep track of the Trump administration’s China policy. In the last few days, members of Congress have slammed the president for being soft on Beijing and pledging to bail out the Chinese electronics firm ZTE. Well this morning, the White House went back to Bad Cop and announced it’s pushing ahead on tariffs and punishing China for playing unfair with intellectual property. That is, taking, and sometimes stealing, American technology. Which to many is at the heart of the US-China relationship long term – innovation, ideas, and playing fair.

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