Outside voices: On countering China with an upgraded USMCA

An enhanced North American trading nexus might be the most direct way to manage the “intensifying economic competition” with China, writes Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Joshua Meltzer, suggesting a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on steroids could provide the best pathway. In a new Brookings commentary published this week, Meltzer says “deepening cooperation among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada when it comes to China is needed to ensure that the USMCA and the open trade and investment regime it enables” continue, in the...