US Trade Chief To Give Major Speech Monday Belatedly Unveiling Biden's China Trade Strategy

While President Biden has kept Trump's tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports in place he's simultaneously remained generally quiet on anything touching long-term policy, particularly as regards China's non-market trade and subsidy practices.

But that's expected to change, with all eyes on a major speech set for 10 a.m. EDT on Monday by US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, who will finally unveil the Biden admin's strategy for tackling the complicated deadlocked US-China trade relationship.

She'll present the strategy in remarks to a Washington think tank, the Center for Strategic Studies, with a question-and-answer session scheduled to follow. It comes after her office has been engaged in what she's dubbed a "top-to-bottom review" of US trade policy with China.

Tai has recently admitted "very large challenges" in the China trade relationship for which she's sought from Congress authorization of new trade law tools to help the US check and ultimately counter Chinese state subsidies for high-technology sectors.

Here's a preview of Tai's much anticipated talk on Monday via Reuters:

Tai's remarks at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on Monday will mark the start of the final three months of the "Phase 1" U.S.-China trade deal struck that Trump struck with Beijing at the start of 2019, easing a tariff war between the world's two largest economies. It called for China to boost purchases of U.S. farm and manufactured goods, energy and services by $200 billion over the two years to the end of 2021 compared to 2017 levels.

Biden administration officials say China has not met its Phase 1 trade deal commitments and they intend to hold it to its international trade commitments.

In an interview published Thursday in Politico she indicated that Biden intends to "build on" existing tariffs to "confront" Beijing.

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wonder what Biden will trade for the US via his CCP spy?

Despite DHS Panic Over 400K Migrants In October, Agency Issues 'No-Arrest' Guidelines

New guidelines promulgated by a top Biden administration official on Thursday advise immigration enforcement agents that being in the country illegally is not by itself enough reason to arrest somebody.

More than 11 million illegal immigrants are estimated to be in the United States, but Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not have the resources to arrest and seek to remove all of them, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a memorandum laying out the guidelines. He urged agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an office inside DHS, to exercise “discretion” in enforcing immigration rules.

“The fact an individual is a removable noncitizen therefore should not alone be the basis of an enforcement action against them,” he wrote.

“We will use our discretion and focus our enforcement resources in a more targeted way. Justice and our country’s well-being require it,” he added.

Only illegal immigrants who pose a threat to national security, pose a threat to public safety, or pose a threat to border security should be targeted for removal, according to the guidelines.

Triggers include a noncitizen committing certain crimes or having a serious prior criminal record; being engaged or suspected of terrorism or espionage; or being apprehended while trying to illegally enter the United States at the border.

Being in the country without a green card or other legitimatization documents means a person can be removed under U.S. law. The new guidelines mean the administration is acknowledging that it won’t enforce the law, critics immediately charged.

“The person who swore an oath to uphold immigration law as written by Congress has declared that immigration law will be upheld according only to his diktats,” NumbersUSA, which advocates for lower immigration levels as a way to “allow present and future generations of Americans to enjoy a stabilizing U.S. population,” wrote in a social media post.

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