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Chinese mercantilism poses a unique threat to the West, and one way to counter its predatory behavior is to join with free-market democracies to oppose it.

American allies are equally victims of China’s mercantilism, and they don’t like how it’s menacing the neighborhood and abetting Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine.

His was a prospect of a breezy, pragmatic mercantilism where nations did business deals to their mutual benefit, a world where profit can bring peace.

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“The advent of sailing ships led to mercantilism, and shaped capitalism.”

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When the decisive vote came in April, Madison attributed his defeat to “the exertions and influence of Aristocracy, Anglicism, and mercantilism” led by “the Banks, the British Merchts., the insurance Comps.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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