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Traditionally, each month’s “Reference Materials” section includes, inter alia, book reviews from –

The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post

The New York Times and Washington Post have shirked their duty – presumably because in the wake of the 1993-2016 American policy of exporting American jobs (and Donald Trump - Robert Lighthizer becoming the champions of blue-collar workers), NYT & WaPo probably don’t know what to think.

Even the Wall Street Journal seems befuddled by having its book review authored by Pat Toomey, the 2-term U.S. Senator (R-PA - elected 2010 and re-elected 2016) who, as reinforced by the views expressed in his book review, was a member of the 1993-2016 Bi-Partisan Elite that insisted on exporting American jobs (he also served in the House of Representatives 1999-2005).

As is reasonable to infer from the WSJ’s selection of Pat Toomey to write their review, the WSJ must also want American jobs exported.

However, the New York Times did publish a 12/18/2022 OpEd by Robert Lighthizer (6 months before publication of his book) entitled “The U.S. Needs to Change the Way It Does Business With China.”

The NYT OpEd and the WSJ/Toomey book review are available in this section.

PLEASE NOTE THAT TWO OTHER BOOK REVIEWS ARE POSTED, BOTH PUBLISHED BY BRITISH NEWSPAPERS AND BOTH TAKING A CALMER VIEW OF WHY AMERICA CANNOT GO ON FOREVER RUNNING UP ITS NATIONAL DEBT WHILE IMPORTING VIRTUALLY ALL OF ITS MANUFACTURED GOODS AND DOING NOTHING BUT “SELLING HAMBURGERS TO EACH OTHER” --

(1) The Financial Times is Britain’s counterpart to the Wall Street Journal.

(2) The Guardian is considered a “newspaper of record” in the U.K. (similar to The NY Times in the U.S.). Since 1936 it has been owned by The Scott Trust to "secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of The Guardian free from commercial or political interference."