we’re already much nicer to the chinese than they are to us (or so it is my casual impression).
evening out the treatment would imho net us at least some $$$.
we could at least consider giving them a surgically designed haircut. if they want to take it further, then tit for tat, and compensate US companies for losses.
my impression is that there are many, many empty office buildings in the USA that are held by PRC chinese interests. The idea is that vacant office buildings are a safer long term investment than anything available to a corrupt PRC official than anything in his own country.
If you happen to be in a reasonably built up area, then you can look around your local neighborhood for mysterious and often very large and/or very new vacant office buildings with no “for rent” signs on them and no contact info posted. If they’re not owned by PRC officials, then you tell me what’s up with those and then we’ll both know. If I’m correct then a practical problem might be that a certain percentage of them are recycled back to US politicians under the table in below market resales, etc.
We buy lots of stuff from PRC owned companies, with US $$$. They can stuff it under their mattresses and suffer from currency inflation, they can import luxury goods (ok, sometimes they do this), and/or they can legally use it to buy US assets (land/buildings). I can’t prove it but it fits some facts as I know them.
fits some facts -> seems to fit some facts