Or we could look at history and accepr that the US changes the rules whenever it is eclipsed or finds itself outdone at its own game.
See Japan 1980s
Nah, the ideology is manufactured - we were just fine doing business with them and we keep being just fine doing business with the Saudis or any number of ideologically 'opposed countries.
Every couple of decades we need a new boogeyman to fight against. Right now it's China. Every one of their companies is "controlled by the CCP" hence a CCP stooge. Clearly we must destroy these companies by any means necessary, that or outright take them over.
Exactly. This is like when tax was put on foreign motorcycles to protect Harley Davidson because it clearly was an inferior product that could not live on customer demand alone against Japanese products. I own one of the products that came out of this debacle[1] which might be the reason I still remember this unlike most who seem to believe this is a new way to do things in the US.
See Japan 1980s
Nah, the ideology is manufactured - we were just fine doing business with them and we keep being just fine doing business with the Saudis or any number of ideologically 'opposed countries.