Outside voices: Biden administration trade conundrums, ‘contradictions’

“Joe Biden has a problem,” writes Stephen Olson in a new Hinrich Foundation analysis that examines how the administration’s much-articulated worker-centric trade policy can co-exist with the message it has been delivering to its global partners, a “sales pitch” that rests on togetherness to confront an assortment of trade-policy challenges. “His trade policy explicitly and unapologetically puts the interests of U.S. workers front and center,” writes Olson, senior research fellow at Hinrich, an Asia-focused global-trade think tank. He adds that...