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And then there’s Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow — once a proud free trader, now just another guy huffing Trump fumes — saying, “Buying cheap goods is not a real prosperity.”

Tai is considered a problem-solving pragmatist on trade policy, which can break down into an ideological divide between free traders and protectionists.

Tai is considered a problem-solving pragmatist on trade policy, which often breaks down into an ideological divide between free traders and protectionists.

A conventional free trader for most of his career, in office he has mostly embraced Trump’s China hawkishness.

Administration players on China have been divided by factional feuding and irreconcilable policy goals, with security hawks and religious freedom crusaders butting heads with Wall Street advocates and free traders.