Chinese Exports Are Threatening Biden’s Industrial Agenda
The president is increasingly hitting back with tariffs and other measures meant to restrict imports, raising tensions with Beijing.
By Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport
I write about the Biden administration’s economic policies and how those policies affect the country and the world. I cover the president at international economic summits, track his negotiations with lawmakers in Congress and explain how his top advisers are debating key economic issues. I am particularly focused on investigating the effects of Mr. Biden’s industrial policy agenda, which is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to promote advanced domestic manufacturing and the deployment of low-emission energy technologies to fight climate change.
I have covered economic policy in Washington for more than a dozen years, with a focus on the stagnation of the American middle class and the decline of economic opportunity in wide swaths of the country. I am the author of a book about those themes: “The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America’s Middle Class,” published in 2020.
Earlier in my career, I worked at newspapers including The Oregonian, the Rocky Mountain News, The Blade (in Toledo, Ohio) and The Washington Post. In 2007, a colleague and I won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for a series of stories exploring why the Ohio economy declined drastically over the course of a generation.
I grew up in McMinnville, Oregon, and have a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University. I live outside Washington with my wife and two children.
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