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Trump's Trade Fight with China Earns Limited Bipartisan Support

Michael Bowman

   WASHINGTON - Unlike his recent threats to impose tariffs on Mexican
   goods, U.S. President Donald Trump's steadfast determination to
   confront China's trade practices has garnered bipartisan congressional
   support, albeit with reservations.

   "We've got to do something about China, or America will not be a strong
   economic power 10 or 15 years from now," Senate Democratic Minority
   Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said earlier this month.

   "We won't stand for our ideas and technologies being stolen, and we
   won't stand for our people losing their jobs to unfair competition,"
   Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch, an Idaho
   Republican, said at a recent hearing.

   "I know it may surprise some of my colleagues, but I agree with
   President Trump when it comes to recognizing the scope of [the]
   challenge that China presents to the United States," the committee's
   top Democrat, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, said.

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