Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang explains how China's alliance with Iran makes it an'enemy combatant ’ on ‘ Life, Liberty & Levin. ’ America is under economic attack. For decades, Washington politicians looked the other way while the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP) quietly flooded our markets with artificially cheap goods, wiping out American jobs and entire industries. Observers say this could mark a turning point in how the issue is addressed.

Context and History

The backdrop to this story helps explain both the urgency and the broader implications.

While career politicians shrugged and allowed multinational companies to outsource American jobs to Beijing, President Donald Trump said enough.

On his first day back in office, President Trump signed the America First Trade Policy Executive Order, directing his administration to review existing tariffs and duties on Chinese goods to ensure they are strong enough to actually stop the cheating.

In what observers are describing as a key detail, tRUMP ’ S TARIFF WAR WITH BEIJING IS PART OF A MULTI-PRONG STRATEGY TO SECURE AMERICA FROM A MUCH BROADER THREAT President Trump is taking move.

Reactions and Responses

The depth of the response underscores how closely this situation is being watched.

America must maintain a robust enforcement agenda at the U.S. Trade Representative and continue applying Antidumping and Countervailing Duties to keep international markets fair and hold China to the agreements it has already signed.

It has also emerged that when Chinese companies dump underpriced, subsidized products into our market, American manufacturers can not compete in an economy that China has decided the rules do not apply to.

Of particular significance is the fact that the CCP's goal is to infiltrate the largest economic markets in the world, take out the competition, and make the United States and Europe dependent on China's manufacturing supply chain.

Policy Implications

This development is likely to influence decisions and discussions in the weeks ahead.

President Trump has imposed tariffs, launched trade investigations, and put America's economic sovereignty back at the center of U.S. foreign policy.

According to those with knowledge of the situation, no president in modern history has done more to expose and confront the CCP's rigged trade playbook, and American manufacturers, steelworkers, farmers, and families are better off because of it.

In a detail that has not gone unnoticed, every time one of Communist China ’ s dumping schemes goes unchallenged, an American factory is put at risk.

Adding further dimension to the story, president Trump is working to protect American workers from CCP dumping.

Compounding the significance of these events, we must make sure that fight does not get abandoned the mom

The Road Ahead

The developments detailed here represent only the latest chapter in an ongoing story. As more information becomes available, the full picture is expected to come into sharper focus for those following the situation.