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Reject repurposing the bank as a tool against China

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 23, p. 724. Written by Veronique de Rugy, Jennifer Hazelton.

Reject repurposing the bank as a tool against China

The document says “will failWho acts: CongressHow: not specifiedIn: The Export–Import Bank Should Be Abolished · Veronique de Rugyp. 724 in the PDF
What the document says

“any attempts to reorient the agency and make it a weapon with which to fight against China are going to fail. Economic fights and national security fights are not won with subsidies.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 724

This answers, in advance, the argument the chapter's second essay goes on to make. The first author holds that the case for the bank as a counter to Chinese export credit will not work on its own terms.

What the document actually says

“any attempts to reorient the agency and make it a weapon with which to fight against China are going to fail. Economic fights and national security fights are not won with subsidies.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 724
That sentence, in plain words

Some want to use this bank against China. The first essay says that will not work.

What this is about

China lends heavily to other countries. Some say America should do the same. This essay says subsidies do not win that fight.

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