"Stateside, prominent economic voices on the right suggest that he may be up to something even more sinister. “Navarro may well want to undermine the entire global trading system — including the World Trade Organization and global supply chains — that has led to postwar peace and prosperity, and brought hundreds of millions of our fellow humans out of deep poverty,” writes James Pethokoukis, an economic policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. “They are nationalists who may be willing to tolerate a poorer, more insular America in the name of greater sovereignty and less economic disruption.”"
According to Politico, "Navarro is perhaps the most extreme advocate in Washington, and maybe in all of economics, for an aggressive stance toward China."[49] Navarro put his attention to China in the mid-2000s.[11] His first publication on the subject is the 2006 book The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought, How They Can Be Won.[55] Navarro has said that he started to examine China when he noticed that his former students were losing jobs, concluding that China was at fault.
You may ask why would it be important at all if Navarro's influence dictates White House policy? Well, the changes he envisage would be viewed as hostile and will likely undermine the economic prosperity we have all assumed to this point. A game changer? We shall see.
