Some of them for sure.
I think others wanted us to become dependent on China. At some point there would have been a war that we’d have lost. I think that was the long term goal of these others.
“I think others wanted us to become dependent on China”
Never attribute to plotting what conventional group think explains.
These politicos and business planners all drink from the same trough, where global free trade is the highest value.
That’s why there was all that The-World-Is-Gonna-End squawking when Trump proposed tariffs.
Any interference with the unfettered free market is anathema to them.
Even when the logic of that market puts American drug factories out of business and renders us reliant on the lowest cost producer, China, for the vast majority of our medicines.
Free markets are price mechanisms. They don’t measure national security. There is variable for that in a formula that only can measure price.