Raise the import tariffs. Stop paying China to acquire arms.
Amen.
“Raise the import tariffs.”
No can do. The US is a signatory to several sovereignty busting treaties including the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. If we impose a tariff we get taken to an international court. When we lose it gives our trading partners permission to impose tariffs on anything they dammed well please until we recant. That’s why we have alcohol in gasoline. We were convicted of subsidizing farmers. So, they made producing alcohol (heavily subsidized) a national defense priority. (That’s allowed under the treaty.) Farmers have their subsidy and our trading partners can’t sue. You and I are stuck with inferior and infuriating fuel.
I’m pretty sure these treaties were entered into by internationalist elements that want to force the US government to do what they want and not what is in the US’s interest.