Watching on television as former President Trump spoke at an event in Dayton, Ohio, as I did, his speech made perfect sense.
Politically, that neck of the American woods is filled with autoworkers in nearby Michigan. And the idea of China flooding the American market with cars or anything else and causing economic mayhem is all too believable.
China is never far from Trump’s thoughts. All the way back there in the stone age of 2014 I interviewed private citizen Trump in his Trump Tower office. And one of the subjects that he raised with no prompting was the US relationship with China, focusing on trade. He was an emphatic China critic.
Thus there was no surprise the other day as I listened to him say this in his speech:
China now is building a couple of massive plants, where they’re going to build the cars in Mexico and … they think that they’re…
