Outside voices: Lighthizer’s China gambit -- in eight moves

Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, appearing last week before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, provided a deep-dive analysis of what he thinks is wrong with U.S. trade policy toward China, culminating in an eight-pronged recipe for repositioning U.S. strategies. He called for Congress to act (“now,” he said) to “enact policies that strategically decouple the United States economy from the Chinese economy,” and added: “In parallel, it should take steps to reinvigorate the health of...