Thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, our relationship with Communist China is again receiving the tiny bit of scrutiny that passes for communist China-relationship scrutiny.
As always, the relationship deserves much more scrutiny than it gets.
The last time the China relationship received a little scrutiny? That was in 2020, when the China virus reminded us that we rely way too much on China for the manufacture of … well, pretty much everything that really matters—and a whole lot of stuff that really doesn’t.
Hence, the Trump tariffs, to try to make us even a little less reliant on China. How pathetic is Washington that it took five years (really, 50)—and an anti-Washington outsider president—to finally begin to address this?
In response to Trump’s tariffs imposed in part to offset China using subsidies and slave labor to flood the…
