Did you not read what was in that article? I'm tired of this baseless "bothsides" babble.
Read the article: most of the tariffs were to keep from having China be the speedbump for American supply lines AND to keep them from too much technological advancement, especially with our tech. Add in raw materials and trying to stimey China's AI push with American materials (hence banning the export of RTX 4090s and other cards from export to China) to maintain a strategic advantage.
The difference between Trump's tariffs and what Biden did is he actually passed laws that were meant to create infrastructure to support said tariffs. The CHIPS act alone was suppose to decouple the US from relying heavily on TSMC and other Taiwanese semiconductors in the case of a war or China putting pressure on Taiwan. "Capitalists" didn't have as much to do with it as national security does. If we can't access certain raw materials and everything we need is controlled by an enemy, we are fukked. PLEASE when you share some shyt, read and contextualize it. What Trump did and is doing is not at all strategic. Biden saw we needed to reduce dependence and put things in place. Trump is selling the car to get gas money. They are not the same.
I am tired of you duopoly shills
You really wrote a whole essay just to rebrand Biden doing the
exact same shyt as Trump with a blue corporate liberal filter on it.
You’re acting like slapping a “strategic” label on tariffs somehow changes their function — it doesn’t. Biden kept Trump’s tariffs. Full stop. Expanded them in some areas. Extended them. The difference? Trump screamed about it, Biden whispered and fed the press some “democracy vs. autocracy” buzzwords.
And the CHIPS Act?
That’s not “infrastructure,” it’s corporate welfare for Intel and TSMC aided and abetted with lobbyist handjobs. It hasn’t decoupled anything.
We’re still dependent on Taiwan. The supply chain is still wrapped around China. All it’s done is give U.S. capital a bigger leash while pretending it’s self-sufficiency. We are not a self-sufficient country.
“National security” is just the new excuse for economic protectionism. Same playbook, different spokesperson. This isn’t some principled shift — it’s a failing empire built on white supremacy scrambling to contain a rising power it can’t compete with anymore.
Trump just lit the fire. But Biden didn’t put it out — he poured gasoline on it and called it ‘diplomacy’ so we can have smart-dumb mfs like you caping for him thinking you’re doing something.
You’re not describing two strategies. You’re describing the same exact play.
One is covert and lies to your face and the other is out in the open. And it’s clear you want to be lied to.
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