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  • OP-ED: Sacrificing efficiency, science, and multilateralism for virtue-signaling

    Mark Cohen, UC Berkeley|Nov 3, 2021

    The Biden administration wants to improve America's international reputation. That's why it endorsed a proposal before the World Trade Organization to waive all intellectual property rights related to Covid-19. The president intends for this offer to be seen as a generous gesture that his "America First" predecessor would never have made. Yet this endorsement is toothless virtue-signaling at best -- and dangerous economic capitulation at worst. It caught our European allies by surprise. The EU nations, especially Germany, do not support the... Full story