Nina Jankowiczs censorship bull, onshoring risks are manageable and other commentary

Trade desk: Onshoring Risks Are ManageableErin McLaughlin at Barron’s warns that “as the global trade war escalates,” “companies moving manufacturing to the U.S.will likely face a long and bumpy road.” There are some issues “that could make onshoring a challenge.” “Shifting manufacturing into the U.S.

takes three to 10 years” due to the “intricate machinery” involved as well as “state and local permitting and environmental reviews.” Other challenges: “U.S.infrastructure is subpar” and our advanced workers face a “skills gap.” While onshoring raises costs, a “manufacturing renaissance would have short- and long-term benefits,” such new “jobs in construction” and higher-paying “advanced manufacturing jobs” than many services sector ones.

“Better targeted economic and industrial policies” may mitigate the associated risks.Libertarian: Jankowicz’s Censorship BullBiden disinfo czar Nina Jankowicz’s claim “that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, charged with countering foreign propaganda, was never engaged in anything approaching censorship” is “abjectly false,” fumes Reason’s Robby Soave.Jankowicz told Congress that NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index, which received State Department funding, were “focused on combatting Chinese government propaganda rather than encouraging censorship of American media entities,” even though GDI blacklisted libertarian and conservative outlets for “including commentary that COVID-19 may have leaked from a Chinese lab.” (That’s now accepted as the most-plausible theory.) This puts the lie to Jankowicz’s defense: By running cover for Beijing, GDI was “effectively complicit in the Chinese government’s most essential propaganda campaign.

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