Peter Navarro: Trump Trade Director Fought for Decade to Stop ‘Death by China’

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BY CHRISS STREET, NEWPORT BEACH, CA

President Trump’s strategic pivot to trash the globalist New World Order is the culmination of a decade of effort by National Trade Council Director and former UCI professor Peter Navarro to stop Americans from committing “Death by China.”

President Trump’s anti-globalist “March Madness” is discombobulating the New World Order by using national security to place tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum; forcing the resignation of his National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn; disruptively agreeing to meet with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un; blocking the $177 billion foreign takeover of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm; forcing Singapore-based to Broadcom to move back to the America; and dumping Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with a tweet.

Peter Navarro as a professor at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business built a reputation for what the Economist Magazine sneered at as a “heterodox economist,” for insurgently embracing the blogosphere to attack mainstream economics’ full-embrace of the globalist New World Order. Although Navarro an elite with a Harvard PhD, he sees globalism as a scam for a small number of crony elites to capture most financial benefits.

Navarro published Death By China in 2010 as a muckraker’s call to confront the dangers of America’s perilous 21st Century dance with the economic imperialism of the Chinese Dragon. He warned that the Chinese had shown a unique political sophistication in co-opting the corporate America’s elites with crony business deals; while politically pacifying Congress by purchasing $1 trillion of Treasury bonds to fund their huge deficit spending.

The book sold enough copies to fund a documentary movie that developed a viral popularity on Netflix. One of the few corporate elites concerned about the China in 2011 to begin corresponding with Navarro was Donald Trump.

Trump and Navarro agreed that Chinese Dragon was using “Weapons of Job Destruction” to eviscerate American manufacturing employment by systematically targeting industries supporting middle-class wages for conquest and transfer to China. China’s weapons included government intervention through access to cheap wages; unlimited low-cost loans; an undervalued currency; an absolute lack of any environmental consideration; and an endless stream of prison labor at subsistence cost to close the deals.

Navarro helped shape Trump’s early presidential campaign message to pragmatically attack 15 years of bipartisan U.S. failure on trade that was destroying American jobs. While Trump triumphed at proving the Republican Party could be reformulated; Hillary Clinton and the DNC establishment used insider fraud to sabotage Bernie Sanders voters.

Navarro joined the Trump Administration and just days after the Inaugural, President Trump signed his firstDeath by China on Jan. 23, 2017 that withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. While 2008 Republican presidential nominee criticized the move as sending “a troubling signal of American disengagement in the Asia-Pacific region at a time we can least afford it.” Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders applauded the move as ending 30 years of trade deals costing millions of American jobs.

Navarro served in a less divisive role in the Trump Administration for the next year, but he consistently advocated for big tax cuts. Having formerly run as a Democrat for Congress, Navarro shocked PBS by justifying corporate tax cuts as a major jobs issue:

“If you look at the tax plan the most important part for me is lowering the corporate tax rate. Why do I want to do that. It’s not to make corporations richer it’s because when we try to keep our production here and that tax rate is the highest in the world that corporate tax rate gives an incentive to General Motors and Ford to take their plants to Mexico instead of staying in Michigan.”

With Congressional passage of the $1.5 trillion tax cut bill, sending the stock market soaring and pushing Trump’s approval rate up by 8 points, it was inevitable that the Navarro would visibly reemerge to battle for the Make-America-Great-Again agenda to war with the globalists.

Disclosure: Chriss Street appears as an economics expert in three sections of Death by China. The documentary paywall has been removed and the movie is free on YouTube.

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