mercantilism

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Schumer’s concerns have since broadened beyond currency issues to the theft of intellectual property and, more generally, to what he calls China’s “mercantilism.”

From Washington Post

Xi Jinping this year handed the United States a golden opportunity to rally countries against China’s high-tech totalitarianism, ruthless mercantilism and bullying of foreign critics.

From Washington Post

Trump relies on the discredited 16th-century economic theory of mercantilism which holds that wealth is a fixed amount and each dollar one person or country has the less everyone else must have.

From Salon

That would be a large improvement over Trump’s combination of populism, nativism, racism and mercantilism.

From Washington Post

Overall, though, the deal leaves intact the foundations of Chinese mercantilism: a vast system of subsidies to favored high-tech industries and state-owned firms.

From Washington Post