Pete’s solution for everything seems to be to bend over and take it.
I’ll say it again: You cannot be the Prez and lead America on your hands and knees.
You notice he didn’t actually propose what he would do that would cause the Chinese to stop forced technology transfers or dumping products below cost or subsidizing state owned enterprises. The long game with tariffs is to cause business to relocate their supply chains out of China which would thwart their hundred year marathon objectives to replace the US as the dominant financial market in the world. Pete doesn’t get that this is the latest in the existential war between free people and medieval servitude under a ruling oligarchy. How many Dow points is it worth to get China to block the export of illegal fentanyl from Chinese pharmacies on the web? Maybe if the WTO had some force they could get China to abide but what it already agreed to as part of its membership but until then President Trump is the only power that is willing to defend true free markets in the world.