What’s idiotic is all the US has put up with from trade with China, from currency manipulation to Chinese protectionism to industrial espionage to steal US technology, not to mention endless copyright and patent violations and product copying and counterfeiting, and any other form of cheating anyone can think of.
And the silliest thing of all is all this fear-mongering about a trade war. We’ve been in a trade war with China from the beginning, but the US is yet to join the fight.
China could really screw with us if they wanted to. So we impose tarrifs, China responds by raising prices .....or calling in debts,