....”We screwed ourselves over when Bill Clinton was POTUS through non fair trade agreements and most favored nations status for the Communist Chinese”....
You got that absolutely right!
The process of ‘opening up’ China began with RIchard NixOn and Dr. Henry Kissinger. Nixon said we couldn’t ‘run the world’ without China.
Commodore Perry ‘opened up’ Japan to trade and business activity in the 1850’s and we all know what that led to....
So I guess history is on its way to repeating itself with a different nation this time.