Rethink Trade fights for good jobs, a healthy environment, robust and fair markets where small businesses can thrive, and safe and affordable medicine, food and goods. And we believe those who will live with the results must decide the policies affecting their lives. That’s why we work to replace the current “trade” rules that were formed by and for the world’s largest corporate powers with damaging results for most people and the planet.
Rethink Trade fights for good jobs, a healthy environment, robust and fair markets where small businesses can thrive and safe and affordable medicine, food and goods. And we believe those who will live with the results must decide the policies affecting their lives. That’s why we work to replace the current “trade” rules that were formed by and for the world’s largest corporate powers with damaging results for most people and the planet.
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with Lori Wallach
Welcome to Rethinking Trade with Lori Wallach, where we unpack “trade” policy, law and politics and how it affects your daily life more than you think. Much of what is labeled trade today is not about actual trade stuff, like tariffs or quotas.
We’ll reveal how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street et al. use the trade brand to rig the rules against working people, consumers, small businesses and farmers and consolidate monopoly control, outsource jobs and undermine food safety and our environment. We’ll debunk myths used to sell the corporate-managed trade agenda, which also has done major damage in the developing world. And, we’ll share alternatives we support.
China’s move to cut off global access to rare-earth minerals and magnets is a “brazen and outrageous use of Chinese economic coercion” that could trigger major manufacturing shutdowns across the U.S. In this episode of the Rethinking Trade podcast, Lori Wallach and former NSC China Director Rush Doshi explain why the tentative one-year pause agreed to on Sunday does not remove the underlying risk — it confirms China’s leverage and the urgency of a U.S. response. Listen for the breakdown on what this means, ahead of the Thursday, October 30th Trump–Xi summit.
