To the Editor:
Re “The U.S. Shouldn’t Try to Out-China China” (Op-Ed, Sept. 3):
I take problem with Jessica Chen Weiss and Ali Wyn once they say Australia, India and Japan don’t need to decouple from China to the identical extent as the USA. Actually, Japan has already established a government-funded program to subsidize Japanese corporations for transferring factories from China again to Japan.
India has already taken extra restrictive measures in barring Chinese language corporations and Chinese language apps from its market than the USA has achieved. Australia has joined with Japan and India in a mixed effort to reroute provide chains away from extreme dependence on China.
Actually, these international locations have already decoupled from China at the least as a lot and maybe greater than the USA.
Clyde Prestowitz
Potomac, Md.
The author was U.S. commerce negotiator within the Reagan administration and is the creator of the forthcoming e-book “The World Turned Upside Down: China, America and the Wrestle for World Management.”
To the Editor:
Though I’m not a local of Kenosha, Wis., I name this metropolis my hometown. My husband and I selected to dwell right here as a result of it’s a numerous neighborhood, with a stupendous lakefront, and a powerful historical past. I’m very distraught about current occasions, however I’m writing to guarantee folks that this neighborhood will transfer ahead and possibly even be stronger sooner or later.
It would transfer ahead not as a result of Donald Trump says it’ll, however as a result of it’s crammed with good individuals who care about each other. Positive, they don’t all agree, however in a democracy individuals are free to precise their opinions.
I’m very proud that regardless of considerations that the president’s coming right here can be disruptive, his go to was peaceable. That is the Kenosha you need to find out about, not what simply makes the nightly information headlines. We’re extra than simply one other cease on the marketing campaign path.
Susan Remson
Kenosha, Wis.
It’s Time to Go Metric
To the Editor:
Re “Footloose No Longer” (Science Occasions, Aug. 18):
Moderately than obsess over minuscule variations in “official toes,” it’s long gone time for the USA to hitch the developed world and change to metric. Drawback solved!
Cheryl Haaker
Albuquerque
