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That’s like asking if we gave a damn about armed robbery, why do we wait until a perp has committed x number of armed robberies before putting him away for life?

Your analogy is completely specious and has no bearing on the defined topic at hand.

The meaning of this near-unanimous vote

Which again, was produced by the majority of Congresscrats who are simultaneously pocketing millions of dollars from the Chinese gov't, and wouldn't have done this if anyone else was POTUS (nor would Hong Kong have gotten extensive media coverage). But Orange Man Bad.

is that China’s sins have finally gotten to the point that we can’t stand aside any more.

China just started imprisoning, torturing, and sending political prisoners to the gulag JUST NOW under Trump? They've been doing this since Chiang Kia-Shek fled to Taiwan in 1948. That Tienanmen Square massacre thingy, and we still gave them MFN status just days later. How do you explain that?

Xi is now starting to figure out that Uncle Sam has had enough and he won’t take it any more.

Yeah, all because of Trump's boss negotiation skills. But he's being backstabbed by Congresscrats because they don't want the evil Orange Man to succeed. Ever hear of Saving Face? That's why Trump has advanced re: negotiation with NK and China than all of his predecessors combined. They don't like to be called out on this when they're probably talking to Trump already about it.

[Your analogy is completely specious and has no bearing on the defined topic at hand. ]

You’re entitled to your opinion, but we usually give people a threshold of a certain number of offenses before the cell door slams shut forever. If we gave a damn about Japanese attacks against US shipping, why did we not go after them in the wake of the attack on the Panay? Why did we wait until Pearl Harbor? Again - there’s a threshold. Nobody knows in advance what that threshold is, but when it is reached, the other guy will definitely find out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay_incident#Responsibility_for_the_attack
[Modern historians believe that the attack may have been intentional. According to John Prados, Navy cryptographers had intercepted and decrypted traffic relating to the attacking planes which clearly indicated that they were under orders during the attack and that it had not been a mistake of any kind. This information was not released at the time for obvious secrecy reasons. Writer Nick Sparks believes that the chaos in Nanking created an opportunity for renegade factions within the Japanese army who wanted to force the U.S. into an active conflict so that the Japanese could once and for all drive the U.S. out of China.[13]]

The stuff about renegade factions is, of course, BS. The Japanese military was the power behind the throne, much as Japan’s shoguns, rather than the emperor, were the real rulers of Japan for 400 years before the Meiji Restoration theoretically made the emperor’s writ the law of the land again.