President Donald Trump’s strategic pivot toward tariffs marks the ascent of National Trade Council Director and former University of California Irvine professor Peter Navarro, who has warned Americans for a decade against committing “Death by China.”
Contents: Trump blocks Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm over national security; Government urges not doing business with China’s Huawei and ZTE
Herbert London, president of the London Center for Policy Research and former president of the Hudson Institute, warned of threats posed to the U.S. by China’s ascendance in the realm of technological innovation.
Rick Manning told Breitbart News that if Trump were to approve the Qualcomm takeover, the “Chinese would have controlled everything we do on the Internet.”
“The proposed takeover of Qualcomm is prohibited, and any substantially equivalent merger, acquisition, or takeover, whether effected directly or indirectly, is also prohibited,” the president said in an order issued Monday.
Gordon Chang, an expert on China and columnist at The Daily Beast, called on the Trump administration to block Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt of Qualcomm in the interest of national security.
President Barack Obama is scheduled for a private visit to San Diego Saturday evening through Monday afternoon.
