We see here the instinctual idiocy of some MAGA Trumpsters to blame all economic problems (including good ones like China’s) on Biden & his Administration.
Many argue ridiculously that Biden is “in XiJinping’s pocket” or on his payroll. Nothing can be further from the truth.
U.S. sanctions against Chinese high tech and defense-related companies are far more severe than they were under Trump, harsher than they have been since before China joined the WTO. With gov’t encouragement U.S. industry is now securitizing its trade and logistic relations with our allies (China is strongly effected & furious about this) and our policy of building anti-Chinese alliances — for example with Japan and South Korea as shown in today’s tripartite meetings — has been handled very cleverly (there are immensely distinct histories and trade interests involved.)
I am no war-hawk and have criticisms of some dumb moves made by both Democratic & Republican politicians in handling our now very difficult and complex economic & political relations with China. We need to be firm, but not adventurous, and do our best to keep open ordinary trade relations and useful mutual investing where possible. Xi is now under increasing pressure. We want the Chinese people to understand that ultimately it is the Xi regime and not the West that is holding them back.
But as expected, most “Trump Party” Republicans will never stop posturing and criticizing U.S. foreign policy so long as the Dems are in power, and arguing Trump was a genius in this field as in every other.