On Balance by Robert Delaney

Donald Trump is picking the wrong fights in his re-election campaign

As the economic devastation caused by the pandemic deepens, Americans are more concerned for their survival than the stock market gains Trump touts

Trump’s tactic of demonising China is also misguided: while most Americans see China as autocratic, they are in no mood for the economic costs of a US-China decoupling

Robert Delaney

Published: 1:00am, 21 Jul, 2020

Updated: 1:35am, 21 Jul, 2020

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Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.