On April 25, 2019, Joe Biden declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.  Seven days later, on May 3, 2019, the Chinese sent a diplomatic cable to the Trump administration blowing up a 150-page draft agreement that had taken many months to negotiate.  The cable was riddled with reversals by China that undermined core U.S. demands.  In each of the seven chapters of the trade deal, China had deleted its commitments to change laws to resolve core complaints that caused the United States to launch a trade war: theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, forced technology transfers, competition policy, access to financial services, and currency manipulation. A coincidence or a premeditated scenario? Joe Biden, in his days in the Senate, was very partial to China, as he voted against revoking China's "most favored nation" status and in 2007 opposed the idea of applying any tariffs to China despite...(Read Full Article)