Alan Tonelson Quotations

I see no prospect of a change that would significantly alter the landscape of U.S.-China trade relations.

We just don't see how current U.S. strategy is going to reverse these very dangerous trends.

We expect to convert congressmen and their staffs to our own view point in trade policy,

We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

Neither movement is going to have any appreciable effect on the relative prices of U.S. and Chinese goods,

China is an economy growing at roughly 10 percent per year, they should be pulling in U.S. exports like crazy. That's not happening. I think you have to attribute it: (a) to China's highly protectionist economic system and (b) to the American failure to open up Chinese markets.

We think in one sense (China trade policy) has consisted of the indiscriminate opening of U.S. markets but has done little to open foreign markets to U.S. goods.

This indicates that there's not a lot of U.S. content in many of these Japanese-brand engines, and that many of them will be assembled in a new U.S. facility, and not genuinely manufactured. Assembly would of course generate much smaller benefits for the local and U.S. economies.

It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

This is a total reversal of Henry Ford's landmark insight,