Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job
losses that are popularly
blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that
without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.
He again attacked the cruel Saudi war in the Yemen, the crushing of democracy in Egypt and Bahrain, and,
without blaming anyone in particular, «the tragic
loss of life in Congo».