The U.S. Senate passed an infrastructure investment package today, a prerequisite by the Biden Administration before Washington will again reduced barriers to trade. However, conditioning freer trade on this infrastructure package could end up being a drag on the economy.   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated yesterday that “we must first make a generational investment in our own competitiveness” before any new trade deals. He cited the fact that China has been investing three times as much on infrastructure as the U.S. but like waiting for investment to trade, there is a certain shallowness to the proposition. China has three times the number of people and due to decades of Maoism, it has been scramblin...