Trump is bashing Jeff Bezos’s Amazon for its Postal Service pact — but he’s overlooking a China deal - Recode

Also see Trump Can't Hurt Amazon. It's Dumb to Try. (Bloomberg)

"The program has been a boon to these Chinese businesses as well as the online shopping marketplaces where they hawk their wares, like Wish, eBay and, to a lesser extent, Amazon.

But it has rankled U.S. merchants who have found themselves sometimes paying higher rates to ship items to customers right here in their own country than Chinese merchants are paying to send goods to shoppers on the other side of the globe.

So why is Trump obsessed about one delivery partnership that he says is bad for the U.S. but not the other? One could reasonably speculate it has something to do with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his ownership of one of Trump’s least-favorite media outlets: The Washington Post."

Trump is bashing Jeff Bezos’s Amazon for its Postal Service pact — but he’s overlooking a China deal - Recode