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US Attorney General: China Engaging in 'Economic Blitzkrieg' Against US

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - China is engaged in an "economic blitzkrieg" to supplant
   the United States as the world's only superpower, Attorney General
   William Barr declared Thursday -- the latest in a series of scathing
   comments about Beijing by top Trump Administration officials.

   Speaking at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids,
   Michigan, Barr said the U.S. response to China's global ambitions "may
   prove to be the most important issue for our nation and the world in
   the twenty-first century."

   China uses a variety of "predatory and often unlawful tactics" to gain
   an advantage over the U.S., according to Barr.

   "How the United States responds to this challenge will have historic
   implications and will determine whether the United States and its
   liberal democratic allies will continue to shape their own destiny or
   whether the CCP and its autocratic tributaries will control the
   future," Barr said, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.

   Among China's alleged predatory practices Barr listed were currency
   manipulation, tariffs, quotas, state-led strategic investment and
   acquisitions, theft and forced transfer of intellectual property, state
   subsidies, dumping, cyberattacks, and espionage.

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