Yeah, that Congress bill is a joke. Nothing about countering Chinese espionage and false dissdents, just a bunch of defensive good communist cop pathetic human rights language
Demtarts wanted some symbolic fluff in order to embarrass Trump by making him veto it, lest the Chicoms get riled. But he went and signed it. Chicoms are riled, but since they haven’t closed a deal yet, he’s using this as leverage to incentivize them to move forward. This is not John Kerry’s foreign policy.