> The White House would do better to focus on areas where the US has legitimate grievances with China, such as intellectual property abuse, not shipments of ste

> The White House would do better to focus on areas where the US has legitimate grievances with China, such as intellectual property abuse, not shipments of steel. Not really. He’s smart in doing precisely the opposite. The people who benefit from IP protection (“coastal elites”) don’t vote for him or want his policies. Meanwhile blue collar steel workers are all but out of work because of a kind of dumping that’s recognized as illegal by many countries.