beggar-my-neighbor policy

1. Beggar-my-neighbor policy: protectionism, usually with the intention of improving domestic employment but without concern that any such gain in employment in one nation must cause an opposite change in employment in the trading partner.
   以邻为壑政策：一种保护主义政策，通常指为改善本国就业状况而不顾一国就业的增加必然造成其贸易伙伴就业的减少。

noun

1. a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others
   1. the United States has pursued a beggar-my-neighbor policy

   Synonym:    beggar-my-neighbour policybeggar-my-neighbor strategybeggar-my-neighbour strategy