Oh, “years and years”. And no specifics.
In the meantime Russia got MFN status in 1996, and did f-all with it. That, btw, is the grand prize in international trade, the golden ticket into the US market. China struggled to get it and was granted MFN only in 2001.
There are hordes of people, btw, with legit complaints about the effects of China trade policies, lots of them in FR. Is all that a conspiracy vs China?
If China blockades or invades Taiwan, yes, I see a counter- blockade vs China. China should not be making war vs Taiwan.
It was decided that NATO would expand eastward and it did one nation or two at a time towards Poland, the Baltics up against Russia.
It was decided by Bill Clinton and George Kennan the diplomat who authored containment of the Soviet Union warned against it.
He said it would end up creating problems back in the 1990’s.