China Strikes First The Biden Administration’s light-handed approach to trade is starting to reveal its cost. Ecuador has just announced completing a free trade agreement with China. Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, a South American moderate politician, visited Washington last month and while President Biden promised to strengthen the U.S. relationship with his country, there was no offer of a free trade agreement. Ecuador is a well-functioning democracy with an economy pegged to the dollar. President Biden recently signed a Congressionally approved U.S.-Ecuador Partnership Act, which transfers a couple of used Coast Guard cutters to Quito, and promises more economic integration and other supports, but China has the big price...
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