John A. Byers argued that “peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial prosperity” with China must be the watchwords for a second Trump administration. “The vastness and persistent growth of China’s trade” suggests a “future of mutually assured production rather than mutually assured destruction.”
Hey, d!ckhead, China does not have a representative government nor do they have a free market.
China has a totalitarian Communist regime. There are no personal liberties. There is no private property. There is no God from whom come the Natural Rights of Man. They are breaking into US Government and Private computer systems to steal sensitive information, intellectual property, and competitive advantage.
The Chi-coms' trade policy is to use unfair trade practices to, industry by industry, put the competition out of business and dominate it - exercising monopoly power, pricing power, and geo-political economic extortion.
It's the short-sighted avarice that makes people like the Koch Brothers useful idiots for the Chinese Communist Party. They figure that as long as they are rich and have influence, that they'll be safe while the remainder of the people are put at risk. Communists only tolerate idiots as long as they are useful. Once they are no longer useful, they become expendible like everyone else.
Yes, the Chi-coms sell us cheap stuff - for now - while hollowing out our defense-technology-industrial supply chains. Since the Chi-coms are Communist, loss means nothing to them because it is other people's lives, savings, and futures that are lost for the good of the Party.
For the Chi-coms, every greedy American businessman is a potential Manchurian Executive.