Editorial Board
Trump Is Right About China’s Postal Subsidy
Chinese mailers get lower rates intended to help much poorer nations. A solution is long overdue.
Unfair advantage.
Photographer: Bomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
President Donald Trump has been known to exaggerate what he sees as China’s unfair advantages in trade with the U.S., and to unproductively escalate tensions between the two countries. But with his latest complaint, having to do with the seemingly trivial matter of global postal fees, Trump has highlighted an unfair imbalance between the two nations that should be relatively easy to put right.
Naturally, there is a danger the Trump administration will not take the easy path.